Henry Street & Love Lane

Henry Street and Love Lane meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Appellate Division Supreme Court of New York State 2nd Department stands 170 feet away. The nearest subway, Clark St, is about three minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 41 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clark St
700 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
1,230 feet
Cadman Plaza West/Clark St · B25
Within a walk
29 places
9 religious buildings, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Henry Street & Love Lane Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clark St, 700 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clark St 2, 3
    700 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    870 feet
    2 3 4 5 R
  2. High St A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Clark Street Passage” (1987) by Ray Ring at the Clark St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cadman Plaza West/Clark St, 1,230 feet away, for the B25.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cadman Plaza West/Clark St B25 · Shelter
    1,230 feet
    B25
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Henry Street.

  • 82 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 11 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pierrepont St & Monroe Pl 24 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2019.

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
88 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 4,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 23 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2015 and February 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Henry Street

  • No stopping 6 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of Love Lane

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Love Lane

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 331 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1844 and 1899.

  1. Appellate Division Supreme Court of New York State 2nd Department Designated landmark
    170 feet
  2. First Presbyterian Church Rectory Designated landmark
    360 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 3 parks
  • 2 libraries
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    320 feet
  2. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    340 feet
  3. Brooklyn Autism Center Academy School
    720 feet
Show all 10
  1. Saint Ann's School
    730 feet
  2. Chabad Lubavitch of Brooklyn Heights Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
  3. Altschool Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    940 feet
  4. Rightway Therapeutic Services Preschool
    980 feet
  5. Smith Street Arts Et Lettres School
    1,000 feet
  6. Brooklyn Heights Synagogue Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,070 feet
  7. Packer Collegiate Institute Early School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pierrepont Playground
    1,150 feet
  2. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,150 feet
  3. Columbus Park
    1,180 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    540 feet
  2. Brooklyn Historical Society Historic site · listed historic place
    710 feet
  3. Center for Brooklyn History Library · listed historic place
    730 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brooklyn Trust Company Listed historic place
    840 feet
  2. Brooklyn Heights Library
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Unitarian Church Landmark
    340 feet
  2. Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church Landmark
    370 feet
  3. First Presbyterian Church Landmark
    420 feet
Show all 8
  1. St Ann & the Holy Trinity Church Listed historic place
    540 feet
  2. Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Cathedral House of worship
    600 feet
  3. Chabad of Brooklyn Heights House of worship
    750 feet
  4. Plymouth Church Listed historic place
    1,280 feet
  5. St Charles Borromeo Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 55 Pierrepont Street Older adult center · landmark
    370 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    970 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,020 feet
  3. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    780 feet
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    860 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    50 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 41 places to eat and 12 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Henry Street or Love Lane.

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