Pearl Street & Anchorage Place

Pearl Street and Anchorage Place meet at a three-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the DUMBO Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Robert Gair Company stands 400 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about two minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, five of them parks, and 53 places to eat. About 3,000 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
York St
610 feet · 2 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
510 feet
York St/Jay St · B67
Within a walk
27 places
5 parks, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pearl Street & Anchorage Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 610 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    610 feet
    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
    0.4 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York St/Jay St, 510 feet away, for the B67.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St/Jay St B67
    510 feet
    B67

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Pearl Street.

  • 92 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Front St & Jay St 24 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 35 Red Cross Place Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 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 August 2016.

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
17 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 91 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

Ten trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in September 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Anchorage Place

  • Time-limited parking 1 sign 2 HOUR PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Flea market 4 signs FLEA MARKET ONLY APRIL 3 - NOV 20 SUNDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the DUMBO Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 79 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as American Round Arch, and mostly built between 1892 and 1914.

  1. Robert Gair Company Designated landmark
    400 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 5 parks
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 park features
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    470 feet
  2. Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute New Trade or language school
    510 feet
  3. Explore Enrich Charter School
    770 feet
Show all 10
  1. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    530 feet
  2. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    570 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School-Nyc 15 School
    770 feet
  4. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    870 feet
  5. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    870 feet
  6. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    920 feet
  7. Amg School of Nursing College
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    570 feet
  2. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    610 feet
  3. Pearl Street Terrace in Brooklyn Bridge Park Park feature
    830 feet
Show all 10
  1. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    740 feet
  2. Bridge Park 3 Park
    850 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park Playground
    930 feet
  4. Riverview Lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park Park feature
    990 feet
  5. Anchorage Plaza
    1,010 feet
  6. Red Twig Forest in Brooklyn Bridge Park Park feature
    1,060 feet
  7. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    1,160 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Pearl Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    280 feet
  2. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dumbo Industrial District Listed historic place
    230 feet
  2. Adams Street Library
    670 feet
  3. Teen Tech Center at the Annex Library
    770 feet
Show all 5
  1. Public School 7 Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
  2. Thomson Meter Company Building Listed historic place
    1,090 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    240 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    410 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 53 places to eat and seven food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 27 corners within a three-minute walk:

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