Livingston Street & Hanover Place

Livingston Street and Hanover Place meet at a three-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 466 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. NYC Business Solutions Brooklyn Center is 330 feet away, and Polonsky Shakespeare Center is 1,220 feet away. The nearest subway, Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts, is about two minutes on foot, and 13 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 85 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts
590 feet · 2 min on foot · A, C, G
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Livingston St/Bond St · T440
Within a walk
25 places
6 religious buildings, 3 career or business centers and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Livingston Street & Hanover Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts, 590 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts A, C, G
    590 feet
    A C G

Next trains at this station

Westbound
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. G …
Queens
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Nevins St 2, 3, 4, 5
    740 feet
    2 3 4 5
  2. Hoyt St 2, 3
    930 feet
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Livingston St/Bond St, 310 feet away, for the T440.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Livingston St/Bond St T440
    310 feet
    T440

Next buses at this stop

  1. T440 …

Live arrivals

Livingston Street carries a bus lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bond St & Fulton St 47 docks in all
    610 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 465 Pacific Street Charging for electric cars, 17 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 466 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 141st most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 240 more were issued.

Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
33
Police precinct
84
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
Elevation
42 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 6,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2011 and 2021.

Since 2014 at least 701 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hanover Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of Hanover Place

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Livingston Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 1 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 300349.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and five buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1869 and 1871.

  1. Dime Savings Bank Designated landmark
    690 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 career or business centers
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 2 schools
  • 9 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Medical Aid Training Schools Trade or language school
    130 feet
  2. Brooklyn Rise Charter School
    260 feet
  3. P.S. K369 - Coy L. Cox School
    1,010 feet
Show all 7
  1. Petits Poussins Brooklyn Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,180 feet
  2. Downtown Brooklyn Childcare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,290 feet
  3. Helen Keller Services for the Blind Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet
  4. St Francis College
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sixteen Sycamores Playground
    810 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bears/Rockwell Place Garden
    1,090 feet
  3. University Place Park
    1,180 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Albee Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    840 feet
  2. Fox Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    910 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Polonsky Shakespeare Center Theater or concert hall
    1,220 feet
  2. BAM Harvey Theater Theater or concert hall
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral Listed historic place
    720 feet
  2. Recovery House of Worship Church Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Brooklyn Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    330 feet
  2. NYC Business Solutions Brooklyn Center Career or business center
    330 feet
  3. NYS Department of Labor Metrotech Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    650 feet
Show all 4
  1. Older adult center at 460 Atlantic Avenue Older adult center
    1,300 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 226 Fire station
    1,030 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    690 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    750 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lidl Supermarket
    820 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,220 feet
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    500 feet
  2. Target Store
    1,200 feet

Shopping centers

  1. City Point Shopping center
    1,020 feet
  2. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 85 places to eat and 21 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Hanover Place or Livingston Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.