Keap Street & Borinquen Place

Keap Street and Borinquen Place meet at a four-way crossing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Arbor Elementary School is 560 feet away. The nearest subway, Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St, is about four minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, six of them parks, and 38 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Borinquen Place.

Safety record
7 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St
940 feet · 4 min on foot · G, L
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Borinquen Pl/S 1 St · Q54
Within a walk
23 places
6 parks, 6 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Keap Street & Borinquen Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St, 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St G, L
    940 feet
    G L

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Hewes St J, M
    0.3 miles
    J M
  2. Marcy Av J, M, Z
    0.3 miles
    J M Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Signs of Life” (2000) by Jackie Chang and “Personal Choice #5” (2023) by Chloë Bass at the Metropolitan Av/Lorimer St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Borinquen Pl/S 1 St, 100 feet away, for the Q54.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Borinquen Pl/S 1 St Q54
    100 feet
    Q54

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Borinquen Place.

  • 60 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hope St & Union Ave 25 docks in all
    940 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 730 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 451 Lorimer Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 260 South 4th Street Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11211
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
90
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Williamsburg
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 131 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 77 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

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 November 2018 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Borinquen Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Borinquen Place

  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Keap Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Keap Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Two by Two Childcare Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
  2. P.S. 319 Pre-K
    480 feet
  3. Brooklyn Arbor Elementary School
    560 feet
Show all 4
  1. Amazing Explorers Williamsburg Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    730 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Blue Playground
    470 feet
  2. Rodney Playground Center Park
    510 feet
  3. Keap Fourth Community Garden
    670 feet
Show all 12
  1. Strawberry Playground
    720 feet
  2. Rodney Playground South Playground
    730 feet
  3. Marcy Green North Park
    930 feet
  4. Rodney Park North Park
    970 feet
  5. Ten Eyck Garden
    990 feet
  6. Marcy Green Center Park
    1,170 feet
  7. Lithuania Square
    1,190 feet
  8. Rodney Park Center Park
    1,230 feet
  9. Hooper Grove Garden
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Williamsburg Post Office
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 places to eat and 21 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 21 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Borinquen Place or Keap 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.