Henry Street & Pineapple Street

Henry Street and Pineapple Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Dorothy Day Way by local law. It lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Hotel St. George stands 190 feet away, and Korean War Veterans Plaza is 1,060 feet away. The nearest subway, Clark St, is about a minute on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clark St
200 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
Cadman Plaza West/Cadman Tower · B25
Within a walk
23 places
7 parks, 7 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Henry Street & Pineapple Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clark St, 200 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clark St 2, 3
    200 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. High St A, C
    1,010 feet
    A C
  2. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    0.3 miles
    2 3 4 5 R

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/Cadman Tower, 600 feet away, for the B25.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cadman Plaza West/Cadman Tower B25
    600 feet
    B25

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Henry Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clark St & Henry St 43 docks in all
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.7 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
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

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
74 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dorothy Day Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2026 (Local Law 48 of 2026).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dorothy Day Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Henry Street (east side).

West side of Henry Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Pineapple Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • Other rule 3 signs PARKING PERMITTED TUESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

South side of Pineapple Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8AM-6PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 342435 and 342752.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 260 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1842 and 1899.

  1. Hotel St. George Designated landmark
    190 feet
  2. Franklin Arms Hotel Designated landmark
    290 feet
  3. St. George Tower Designated landmark
    360 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Cadman Plaza Park.

  1. William Jay Gaynor Memorial Bust by Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1926
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 7 parks
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    610 feet
  2. Plymouth Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    770 feet
  3. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
Show all 5
  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet
  2. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cadman Plaza Park
    430 feet
  2. Korean War Veterans Plaza Park
    1,060 feet
  3. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    1,140 feet
Show all 7
  1. Fort Stirling Park
    1,180 feet
  2. Anchorage Plaza
    1,180 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    1,210 feet
  4. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn War Memorial Monument or memorial
    700 feet
  2. Brooklyn Heights Library
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Plymouth Church Landmark · listed historic place
    420 feet
  2. First Presbyterian Church Landmark
    460 feet
  3. Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church Landmark
    500 feet
Show all 5
  1. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church House of worship
    660 feet
  2. First Unitarian Church House of worship
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 55 Pierrepont Street Older adult center
    1,240 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    100 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    840 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and seven food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Henry Street or Pineapple Street.

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 Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.