Herkimer Street & Pleasant Place

Herkimer Street and Pleasant Place meet at a three-way junction in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Phoenix Community Garden is 650 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about two minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
620 feet · 2 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
Rockaway Av/Atlantic Av · B60
Within a walk
13 places
6 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Herkimer Street & Pleasant Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 620 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av C
    620 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Broadway Junction A, C, J, L, Z
    0.4 miles
    A C J L Z
  2. Chauncey St J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Av/Atlantic Av, 580 feet away, for the B60.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av/Atlantic Av B60
    580 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Herkimer St & Eastern Pkwy 20 docks in all
    440 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2111 Monaco Place Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 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.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
37
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ocean Hill
Elevation
94 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1927.

Since 2014 at least 87 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Herkimer Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Pleasant Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Pleasant Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./ I.S. 155 Nicholas Herkimer School
    360 feet
  2. Imagine Me Leadership Charter School
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Phoenix Community Garden
    650 feet
  2. Callahan-Kelly Playground
    900 feet
  3. 45 Somers Street Community Garden
    910 feet
Show all 5
  1. Hull Street Community Garden (NYRP) Garden
    1,190 feet
  2. Fish Playground
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Hope Pentecostal Church House of worship
    350 feet
  2. International Revival Tabernacle House of worship
    870 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Herkimer 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.