Hicks Street & Cranberry Street

Hicks Street and Cranberry Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Plymouth Church Parish House stands 140 feet away. The nearest subway, Clark St, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, eight of them parks, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clark St
1,130 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
1,010 feet
Cadman Plaza West/Middagh St · B25
Within a walk
19 places
8 parks, 4 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hicks Street & Cranberry Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clark St, 1,130 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clark St 2, 3
    1,130 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
    1,170 feet
    A C

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/Middagh St, 1,010 feet away, for the B25.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cadman Plaza West/Middagh St B25 · Shelter
    1,010 feet
    B25
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Columbia Heights & Cranberry St 37 docks in all
    540 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
    0.7 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 four 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 February 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
60 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 110 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cranberry Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • Other rule 5 signs PARKING PERMITTED TUESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

South side of Cranberry Street

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

East side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • Other rule 4 signs PARKING PERMITTED WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

West side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 263 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Eclectic, and mostly built between 1840 and 1899.

  1. Plymouth Church Parish House Designated landmark
    140 feet
  2. Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption Rectory Designated landmark
    310 feet
  3. Public School No. 8 Designated landmark
    400 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Plymouth Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    200 feet
  2. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    500 feet
  3. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    580 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Harry Chapin Playground
    480 feet
  2. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    530 feet
  3. Poplar Street Community Garden
    530 feet
Show all 10
  1. Hillside Dog Park
    540 feet
  2. Squibb Park
    620 feet
  3. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    910 feet
  4. Cadman Plaza Park
    950 feet
  5. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    960 feet
  6. Anchorage Plaza
    1,150 feet
  7. Fort Stirling Park
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn War Memorial Monument or memorial
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church Landmark
    230 feet
  2. Plymouth Church Landmark · listed historic place
    280 feet
  3. First Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,200 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    670 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,070 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and five food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 20 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cranberry 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.