Hicks Street & Old Fulton Street

Hicks Street and Old Fulton Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 800 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The Long Island Safe Deposit Company Building stands 270 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 18 public places, six of them parks, and 53 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
High St
1,250 feet · 5 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Old Fulton St/Hicks St · B25
Within a walk
18 places
6 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hicks Street & Old Fulton Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is High St, 1,250 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
    1,250 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
    0.4 miles
    2 3
  2. York St F
    0.4 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Old Fulton St/Hicks St, 50 feet away, for the B25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Old Fulton St 39 docks in all
    440 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 350 feet 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
    0.3 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 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 800 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 899th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 328 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
25 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Old Fulton Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Old Fulton Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No stopping 9 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 135 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1836 and 1899.

  1. The Long Island Safe Deposit Company Building Designated landmark
    270 feet
  2. Long Island Insurance Company Building Designated landmark
    280 feet
  3. Brooklyn Children's Aid Society Designated landmark
    320 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 fire station
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Dock Street School for Steam Studies School
    660 feet
  2. District 13 Pre-K Center at 25 Dock Street Pre-K center
    660 feet
  3. Bright Horizons at Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
Show all 5
  1. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet
  2. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Anchorage Plaza
    50 feet
  2. Hillside Dog Park
    410 feet
  3. Poplar Street Community Garden
    430 feet
Show all 8
  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    610 feet
  2. Cadman Plaza Park
    850 feet
  3. Squibb Park
    1,100 feet
  4. Harry Chapin Playground
    1,160 feet
  5. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    1,260 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Old Fulton Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    450 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. St Anns Warehouse Theater or concert hall · listed historic place
    770 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church House of worship
    1,220 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other places

  1. Dumbo Ferry Landing
    1,020 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 53 places to eat and two food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Hicks Street or Old Fulton Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.