Main Street & Howard Alley

Main Street and Howard Alley meet at a three-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the DUMBO Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nesmith & Sons' Empire Stores stands 300 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 66 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
York St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
450 feet
Front St/Dock St · B25
Within a walk
15 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Main Street & Howard Alley Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    0.3 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. High St A, C
    0.3 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Front St/Dock St, 450 feet away, for the B25.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Front St/Dock St B25
    450 feet
    B25

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Main Street.

  • 35 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Main St & Plymouth St 45 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    1.1 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
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2021.

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
9 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 70 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the DUMBO Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 53 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Industrial Neoclassical, and mostly built between 1870 and 1904.

  1. Nesmith & Sons' Empire Stores Designated landmark
    300 feet
  2. Robert Gair Company Designated landmark
    470 feet
  3. Long Island Insurance Company Building Designated landmark
    680 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Underpasses.

  1. This Way Light installation by Linnaea Tillett and Karin Tehve, 2009
    820 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 2 park features
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 1 library
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Horizons at Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    430 feet
  2. Dock Street School for Steam Studies School
    640 feet
  3. District 13 Pre-K Center at 25 Dock Street Pre-K center
    640 feet
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  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    250 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Park Playground
    440 feet
  3. Anchorage Plaza
    490 feet
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  1. Riverview Lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park Park feature
    570 feet
  2. Red Twig Forest in Brooklyn Bridge Park Park feature
    740 feet
  3. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,200 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Pearl Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    940 feet
  2. Old Fulton Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,060 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dumbo Industrial District Listed historic place
    1,080 feet
  2. Adams Street Library
    1,230 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. St Anns Warehouse Theater or concert hall · landmark · listed historic place
    790 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,130 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 66 places to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Main Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.