Hudson Avenue & Evans Street

Hudson Avenue and Evans Street meet at a three-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Aldona Vaiciunas Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Commandant's House, Quarters A stands 310 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them gardens, and four places to eat. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
York St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
York Av/Navy St · B62
Within a walk
8 places
2 gardens, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hudson Avenue & Evans Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. York St F
    0.4 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York Av/Navy St, 690 feet away, for the B62.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York Av/Navy St B62
    690 feet
    B62

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Front St & Gold St 37 docks in all
    710 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.7 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
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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)
Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Aldona Vaiciunas Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2026 (Local Law 48 of 2026).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 84 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Not Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Aldona Vaiciunas Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Evans Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Evans Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Hudson Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 42 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1828 and 1855.

  1. Commandant's House, Quarters A Designated landmark
    310 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Ember Charter High School
    310 feet
  2. P.S. 307 Daniel Hale Williams School
    560 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pulse Garden - Farragut Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    730 feet
  2. Vinegar Hill Community Garden
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Quarters A Listed historic place
    560 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Farragut Community Center
    1,080 feet
  2. Older adult center at 228 York Street Older adult center
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Evans Street or Hudson Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Records, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.