Furman Street & Doughty Street

Furman Street and Doughty Street meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Fulton Ferry Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,585 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Brooklyn City Railroad Company Building stands 110 feet away. The nearest subway, High St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, six of them parks, and 44 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
High St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
810 feet
Old Fulton St/Hicks St · B25
Within a walk
14 places
6 parks, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Furman Street & Doughty Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is High St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. High St A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Clark St 2, 3
    0.5 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Old Fulton St/Hicks St, 810 feet away, for the B25.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Old Fulton St/Hicks St B25
    810 feet
    B25

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Old Fulton St 39 docks in all
    480 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 1,220 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 35 Red Cross Place Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,585 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 522nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 777 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11201
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
33
Police precinct
84
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brooklyn Heights
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and August 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Doughty Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Doughty Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

East side of Furman Street

  • No standing 22 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Fulton Ferry Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 76 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and built between 1824 and 1936.

  1. Brooklyn City Railroad Company Building Designated landmark
    110 feet
  2. Marine Fire Boat Station Designated landmark
    260 feet
  3. The Eagle Warehouse and Storage Company Building Designated landmark
    350 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 garden
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Dock Street School for Steam Studies School
    1,070 feet
  2. District 13 Pre-K Center at 25 Dock Street Pre-K center
    1,070 feet
  3. Bright Horizons at Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    50 feet
  2. Hillside Dog Park
    340 feet
  3. Squibb Park
    520 feet
Show all 8
  1. Harry Chapin Playground
    730 feet
  2. Poplar Street Community Garden
    760 feet
  3. Anchorage Plaza
    810 feet
  4. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    840 feet
  5. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    1,110 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Old Fulton Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    480 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. St Anns Warehouse Theater or concert hall · listed historic place
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other places

  1. Dumbo Ferry Landing
    430 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 44 places to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 19 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Doughty Street or Furman Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.