Hicks Street & Poplar Street

Hicks Street and Poplar Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Poplar Street Community Garden is 30 feet away, and the Emily Warren Roebling School is 150 feet away. The nearest subway, High St, is about four minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them parks, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
High St
1,170 feet · 4 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
Old Fulton St/Henry St · B25
Within a walk
15 places
6 parks, 3 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hicks Street & Poplar Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is High St, 1,170 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. High St A, C
    1,170 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, 540 feet away, for the B25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 28 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
    630 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 35 Red Cross Place Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 September 2021.

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
41 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 72 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and August 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hicks Street

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

West side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

North side of Poplar Street

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

South side of Poplar Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 199 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Eclectic, and mostly built between 1836 and 1899.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 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
    150 feet
  2. Plymouth Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    700 feet
  3. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    870 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Poplar Street Community Garden
    30 feet
  2. Hillside Dog Park
    230 feet
  3. Harry Chapin Playground
    560 feet
Show all 8
  1. Anchorage Plaza
    650 feet
  2. Squibb Park
    740 feet
  3. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    800 feet
  4. Cadman Plaza Park
    920 feet
  5. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

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

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    670 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and one food store.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hicks Street or Poplar 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.