Jay Street & Cathedral Place

Jay Street and Cathedral Place meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. McLaughlin Park is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Jay St-MetroTech, is about five minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 30 public places, ten of them schools, and five places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Jay Street.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Jay St-MetroTech
1,210 feet · 5 min on foot · A, C, F, R
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Jay St/Tillary St · B67
Within a walk
30 places
10 schools, 5 parks and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jay Street & Cathedral Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Jay St-MetroTech, 1,210 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jay St-MetroTech A, C, F, R
    1,210 feet
    A C F R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. F …
  4. R …
Outbound
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. High St A, C
    0.3 miles
    A C
  2. York St F
    0.3 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Departures and Arrivals” (2009) by Ben Snead at the Jay St-MetroTech station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jay St/Tillary St, 150 feet away, for the B67.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jay St/Tillary St B67
    150 feet
    B67

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Jay Street.

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Concord St & Bridge St 19 docks in all
    910 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, January 2020

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
50 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 99 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cathedral Place

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cathedral Place

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Jay Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • NYP plates only 1 sign NYP LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in McLaughlin Park.

  1. McLaughlin Park World War I Memorial Stele, 1919
    600 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 public places.

  • 10 schools
  • 5 parks
  • 4 courthouses
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 public spaces
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Community High School
    130 feet
  2. Northside Center for Child Development Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    440 feet
  3. Auxiliary Enterprise Board of New York City College of Technology Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    470 feet
Show all 14
  1. CUNY NYC College of Technology College
    680 feet
  2. Brooklyn International High School
    920 feet
  3. Creators Academy School
    920 feet
  4. Science Skills Center High School for Science, Technology and the Creative Arts School
    920 feet
  5. City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology School
    920 feet
  6. George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School
    920 feet
  7. Heartshare Human SVCS Metrotech School
    960 feet
  8. Our Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 feet
  9. The Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice School
    1,140 feet
  10. Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women School
    1,140 feet
  11. Fusion Academy Brooklyn School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McLaughlin Park
    40 feet
  2. McLaughlin Park Playground
    130 feet
  3. Bridge Plaza Community Garden
    890 feet
Show all 7
  1. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,060 feet
  2. Walt Whitman Park
    1,140 feet
  3. Korean War Veterans Plaza Park
    1,150 feet
  4. Columbus Park
    1,220 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 203 Jay Street Public space
    580 feet
  2. Brooklyn Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    890 feet
  3. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St James Cathedral Basilica Church House of worship
    120 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Brooklyn Supreme Court Criminal Courthouse
    750 feet
  2. Brooklyn Family Court Courthouse
    770 feet
  3. Cadman Plaza Post Office Listed historic place
    1,010 feet
Show all 5
  1. Federal Courthouse Eastern District Courthouse
    1,070 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bankruptcy Court Courthouse · listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gold Organic Farm Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. NYC Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. City Point Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Cathedral Place or Jay Street.

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