Gold Street & York Street

Gold Street and York Street meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Farragut development. The corner is also named Melquain Jatelle Anderson Drive by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Vinegar Hill Community Garden is 60 feet away, and Amg School of Nursing is 660 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about four minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
York St
1,110 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Gold St/York St · B62, B67
Within a walk
17 places
3 parks, 2 community centers and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Gold Street & York Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 1,110 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. York St F
    1,110 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gold St/York St, 110 feet away, for the B62 and B67.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gold St/York St B62, B67 · Shelter
    110 feet
    B62 B67
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …
  2. B67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Front St & Gold St 37 docks in all
    390 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Manhattan Bridge at Bridge Street & Nassau Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11201
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
33 and 35 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
84
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Melquain Jatelle Anderson Drive, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1950.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Farragut development.

Since 2014 at least 84 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Melquain Jatelle Anderson Drive.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Gold Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Gold Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of York Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of York Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 39 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were built between 1805 and 1927.

  1. "Constitution" Engine Company No.7 Designated landmark
    580 feet
  2. Thomson Meter Company Building Designated landmark
    620 feet
  3. Commandant's House, Quarters A Designated landmark
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 2 community centers
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 307 Daniel Hale Williams School
    480 feet
  2. Amg School of Nursing College
    660 feet
  3. Ember Charter High School
    790 feet
Show all 4
  1. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Vinegar Hill Community Garden
    60 feet
  2. Pulse Garden - Farragut Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    510 feet
  3. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    740 feet
Show all 7
  1. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    750 feet
  2. Bridge Park 3 Park
    880 feet
  3. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    1,150 feet
  4. Golconda Playground
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public School 7 Listed historic place
    740 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Open Door Church House of worship
    980 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Farragut Community Center
    460 feet
  2. Older adult center at 228 York Street Older adult center
    460 feet
  3. Community center at Farragut Community center
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gold Organic Farm Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Gold Street or York Street.

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