Joralemon Street & Columbia Place

Joralemon Street and Columbia Place meet at a three-way junction 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. A designated landmark, 1st Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn, stands 290 feet away, and St Charles Borromeo Church is 1,260 feet away. The nearest subway, Borough Hall/Court St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 2, 3, 4 and two more. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Borough Hall/Court St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, R
Nearest bus stop
1,190 feet
Brooklyn Bridge Park/Pier 6 · B63
Within a walk
16 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Joralemon Street & Columbia Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Borough Hall/Court St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  1. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
5 lines
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Outbound
4 lines
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Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Clark St 2, 3
    0.5 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Bridge Park/Pier 6, 1,190 feet away, for the B63.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park/Pier 6 B63
    1,190 feet
    B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Montague St & Hicks St 36 docks in all
    1,170 feet

By car

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

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

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
29 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 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
  • 5 different rules

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

East side of Columbia Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8AM-6PM

West side of Columbia Place

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • Other rule 4 signs PARKING PERMITTED TUESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

South side of Joralemon Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 334 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1847 and 1889.

  1. High Pressure Fire Service - Main Pumping station Designated landmark
    170 feet
  2. 1st Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn Designated landmark
    290 feet
  3. South Brooklyn Neighborhood Houses (Settlement House) Designated landmark
    320 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 dog run
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. St. Ann's Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    390 feet
  2. Grace Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    420 feet
  3. Altschool Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,090 feet
Show all 6
  1. Kinder Prep Childcare and Enrichment Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,240 feet
  2. MS Lam Montessori School
    1,250 feet
  3. Kinder Prep Childcare 2 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    300 feet
  2. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    310 feet
  3. Adam Yauch Park
    460 feet
Show all 7
  1. Adam Yauch Playground Dog Run
    570 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Park Playground
    600 feet
  3. Pierrepont Playground
    1,190 feet
  4. Brooklyn Bridge Park Zone 6 Playground
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Church Brooklyn Heights Landmark
    420 feet
  2. St Charles Borromeo Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 224 Fire station
    500 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,210 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Columbia Place or Joralemon 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.