Hicks Street & Clark Street

Hicks Street and Clark Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Hotel St. George stands 90 feet away. The nearest subway, Clark St, is about a minute on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, six of them parks, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clark St
370 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
1,080 feet
Cadman Plaza West/Clark St · B25
Within a walk
19 places
6 parks, 5 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hicks Street & Clark Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clark St, 370 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
    370 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
    0.3 miles
    A C
  2. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    0.4 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/Clark St, 1,080 feet away, for the B25.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cadman Plaza West/Clark St B25 · Shelter
    1,080 feet
    B25
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clark St & Henry St 43 docks in all
    350 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
    0.9 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
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 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
76 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1898 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2015 and December 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Clark Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Clark Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • Other rule 4 signs PARKING PERMITTED WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

East side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • Other rule 6 signs PARKING PERMITTED WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

West side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 361 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1843 and 1899.

  1. Hotel St. George Designated landmark
    90 feet
  2. St. George Tower Designated landmark
    190 feet
  3. Towers Hotel Designated landmark
    210 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Plymouth Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    560 feet
  2. Altschool Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,090 feet
  3. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Stirling Park
    530 feet
  2. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    670 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    930 feet
Show all 9
  1. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    1,000 feet
  2. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,000 feet
  3. Harry Chapin Playground
    1,230 feet
  4. Pierrepont Playground
    1,280 feet
  5. Poplar Street Community Garden
    1,290 feet
  6. Hillside Dog Park
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Presbyterian Church Landmark
    440 feet
  2. Plymouth Church Listed historic place
    650 feet
  3. Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    720 feet
Show all 4
  1. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church House of worship
    890 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 55 Pierrepont Street Older adult center
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    710 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,200 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,050 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and nine food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

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