Joralemon Street & Willow Place

Joralemon Street and Willow Place meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. South Brooklyn Neighborhood Houses (Settlement House) stands 130 feet away. The nearest subway, Borough Hall/Court St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2, 3, 4, 5 and R. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Borough Hall/Court St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, R
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Brooklyn Bridge Park/Pier 6 · B63
Within a walk
19 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Joralemon Street & Willow Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Borough Hall/Court St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  1. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    0.3 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
    0.4 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Bridge Park/Pier 6, 0.3 miles away, for the B63.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park/Pier 6 B63
    0.3 miles
    B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Montague St & Hicks St 36 docks in all
    970 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

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2019.

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
42 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 88 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

East side of Willow Place

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • Other rule 5 signs PARKING PERMITTED WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

West side of Willow Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 426 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1846 and 1887.

  1. South Brooklyn Neighborhood Houses (Settlement House) Designated landmark
    130 feet
  2. 1st Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn Designated landmark
    300 feet
  3. St. Charles Orthopedic Hospital Designated landmark
    330 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 parks
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. St. Ann's Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    190 feet
  2. Grace Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    240 feet
  3. MS Lam Montessori School
    1,080 feet
Show all 7
  1. Altschool Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    890 feet
  2. Chabad Lubavitch of Brooklyn Heights Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet
  3. Brooklyn Autism Center Academy School
    1,240 feet
  4. Mary McDowell Friends - Upper School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    500 feet
  2. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    510 feet
  3. Adam Yauch Park
    630 feet
Show all 6
  1. Adam Yauch Park Playground
    640 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Playground Dog Run
    770 feet
  3. Van Voorhees Playground
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Church Brooklyn Heights Landmark
    240 feet
  2. St Charles Borromeo Church House of worship
    1,060 feet
  3. Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Cathedral House of worship
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. Chabad of Brooklyn Heights House of worship
    1,230 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 224 Fire station
    300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,010 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Joralemon Street or Willow Place.

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.