Hicks Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Hicks Street and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Brooklyn Children's Aid Society stands 170 feet away. The nearest subway, High St, is about five minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, five of them parks, and nine places to eat. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
High St
1,300 feet · 5 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
Old Fulton St/Henry St · B25
Within a walk
14 places
5 parks, 3 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hicks Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is High St, 1,300 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. High St A, C
    1,300 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
    0.3 miles
    2 3
  2. York St F
    0.4 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Old Fulton St/Henry St, 680 feet away, for the B25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 26 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

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 2016.

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
35 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • 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 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 181 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1836 and 1899.

  1. Brooklyn Children's Aid Society Designated landmark
    170 feet
  2. Public School No. 8 Designated landmark
    280 feet
  3. 84th Police Precinct Garage Designated landmark
    310 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    290 feet
  2. Plymouth Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    830 feet
  3. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,000 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Poplar Street Community Garden
    120 feet
  2. Hillside Dog Park
    360 feet
  3. Harry Chapin Playground
    690 feet
Show all 7
  1. Anchorage Plaza
    780 feet
  2. Squibb Park
    880 feet
  3. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    940 feet
  4. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

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

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    800 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or Hicks Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYC City Planning, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 3, 2026.