Henry Street & Poplar Street

Henry Street and Poplar Street meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. A designated landmark, 84th Police Precinct, stands 190 feet away, and Squibb Park is 1,220 feet away. The nearest subway, High St, is about three minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, seven of them parks, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
High St
700 feet · 3 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Old Fulton St/Henry St · B25
Within a walk
20 places
7 parks, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Henry Street & Poplar Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. High St A, C
    700 feet
    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
    1,210 feet
    2 3
  2. York St F
    0.3 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Old Fulton St/Henry St, 150 feet away, for the B25.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Old Fulton St/Henry St B25
    150 feet
    B25

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Henry Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Henry St & Middagh St 34 docks in all
    160 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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 August 2025.

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
47 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Henry Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of Poplar Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Poplar Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • Other rule 2 signs PARKING PERMITTED WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 136 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Eclectic, and mostly built between 1834 and 1899.

  1. 84th Police Precinct Designated landmark
    190 feet
  2. District School No. 8 Designated landmark
    230 feet
  3. 84th Police Precinct Garage Designated landmark
    250 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest at Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Underpasses.

  1. This Way Light installation by Linnaea Tillett and Karin Tehve, 2009
    470 feet
  2. William Jay Gaynor Memorial Bust by Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1926
    490 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    390 feet
  2. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    470 feet
  3. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    950 feet
Show all 5
  1. Plymouth Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,170 feet
  2. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Anchorage Plaza
    170 feet
  2. Cadman Plaza Park
    450 feet
  3. Poplar Street Community Garden
    500 feet
Show all 9
  1. Hillside Dog Park
    700 feet
  2. Harry Chapin Playground
    1,030 feet
  3. Squibb Park
    1,220 feet
  4. Walt Whitman Park
    1,240 feet
  5. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    1,270 feet
  6. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    1,270 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Old Fulton Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn War Memorial Monument or memorial
    960 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church House of worship
    560 feet
  2. Plymouth Church Listed historic place
    740 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    390 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,100 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Henry Street or Poplar 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.