Myrtle Avenue & Bridge Street

Myrtle Avenue and Bridge Street meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Oratory Church of Saint Boniface is 510 feet away, and McLaughlin Park is 920 feet away. The nearest subway, Jay St-MetroTech, is about two minutes on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 38 public places, ten of them schools, and 58 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Myrtle Avenue.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Jay St-MetroTech
540 feet · 2 min on foot · A, C, F, R
Nearest bus stop
510 feet
Metrotech Underpass/Lawrence St · B54
Within a walk
38 places
10 schools, 10 trade or language schools and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Myrtle Avenue & Bridge Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Jay St-MetroTech, 540 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jay St-MetroTech A, C, F, R
    540 feet
    A C F R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. F …
  4. R …
Outbound
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Hoyt St 2, 3
    1,030 feet
    2 3
  2. DeKalb Av B, Q, R
    0.3 miles
    B Q R

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Departures and Arrivals” (2009) by Ben Snead at the Jay St-MetroTech station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Metrotech Underpass/Lawrence St, 510 feet away, for the B54.

  • 17 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Metrotech Underpass/Lawrence St B54
    510 feet
    B54

Next buses at this stop

  1. B54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Myrtle Avenue.

  • 54 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 14 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lawrence St & Willoughby St 39 docks in all
    800 feet

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 January 2020.

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

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 4,100 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 2009 and 2014.

Since 2014 at least 89 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were built between 1835 and 1930.

  1. First Free Congregational Church Designated landmark
    240 feet
  2. Long Island Headquarters of the New York Telephone Company Designated landmark
    410 feet
  3. New York and New Jersey Telephone and Telegraph Building Designated landmark
    560 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Flatbush Avenue Extension.

  1. Pageant Sculpture by Brian Tolle, 2017
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 public places.

  • 10 schools
  • 10 trade or language schools
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 public spaces
  • 2 courthouses
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    420 feet
  2. Brooklyn Friends School - Upper School
    610 feet
  3. Fusion Academy Brooklyn School
    640 feet
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  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    470 feet
  2. Brooklyn Prospect Charter School-Csd 13 School
    670 feet
  3. City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology School
    670 feet
  4. George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School
    670 feet
  5. Eldysi Institute of Hair & Nail Des Trade or language school
    790 feet
  6. Magna Institute Trade or language school
    790 feet
  7. SCS Business & Tech Institute Trade or language school
    790 feet
  8. Cay Community Services Organization, Trade or language school
    840 feet
  9. Heartshare Human SVCS Metrotech School
    930 feet
  10. Metro Training Inst Trade or language school
    990 feet
  11. Advanced Software Analysis Trade or language school
    1,040 feet
  12. Ultissima BTY Inst-Brooklyn Trade or language school
    1,040 feet
  13. United Career Centers Trade or language school
    1,040 feet
  14. American Hi-Tech Trade or language school
    1,080 feet
  15. Robert Finance Hair Des Inst Trade or language school
    1,080 feet
  16. Brooklyn Friends School
    1,110 feet
  17. The Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice School
    1,170 feet
  18. Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women School
    1,170 feet
  19. CUNY NYC College of Technology College
    1,200 feet
  20. Auxiliary Enterprise Board of New York City College of Technology Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,200 feet
  21. Brooklyn Bureau Community Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet
  22. Basis Independent Brooklyn School
    1,230 feet
  23. Our Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McLaughlin Park
    920 feet
  2. Garden of Eden - Ingersoll Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,020 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 1 Metrotech Center Public space
    610 feet
  2. Public space at Renaissance Plaza Public space
    790 feet
  3. Public space at Avalon Fort Greene Public space
    840 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Old Brooklyn Fire Headquarters Listed historic place
    850 feet
  2. Offerman Building Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Oratory Church of Saint Boniface House of worship
    510 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Brooklyn Family Court Courthouse
    790 feet
  2. Ingersoll Community Center
    910 feet
  3. Brooklyn Supreme Court Criminal Courthouse
    920 feet

Fire and police

  1. Brooklyn Borough Command/Division 11/Battalion 31/Engine 207/Ladder 110 Fire station
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    450 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NYC Fresh Market Supermarket
    690 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Gold Organic Farm Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. City Point Shopping center
    1,180 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 58 places to eat and nine 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 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bridge Street or Myrtle Avenue.

Sources: NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 3, 2026.