Pearl Street & Prospect Street

Pearl Street and Prospect Street meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School is 170 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about two minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, seven of them parks, and 40 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
York St
570 feet · 2 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
Sands St/Pearl St · B69
Within a walk
22 places
7 parks, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pearl Street & Prospect Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 570 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    570 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
    1,300 feet
    A C
  2. Clark St 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sands St/Pearl St, 280 feet away, for the B69.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sands St/Pearl St B69
    280 feet
    B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Pearl Street and Prospect Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pearl St & York St 54 docks in all
    270 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 720 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.6 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
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2019

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
53 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,400 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 1992 and 2018.

Since 2014 at least 582 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese tree lilac and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Pearl Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Pearl Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Prospect Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Prospect Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 12 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as American Round Arch. They were mostly built between 1882 and 1910.

  1. Thomson Meter Company Building Designated landmark
    770 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
    560 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 7 parks
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 2 public spaces
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    170 feet
  2. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    170 feet
  3. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    200 feet
Show all 8
  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    660 feet
  2. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    780 feet
  3. Amg School of Nursing College
    1,110 feet
  4. Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute New Trade or language school
    1,230 feet
  5. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    330 feet
  2. Bridge Park 3 Park
    350 feet
  3. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    460 feet
Show all 8
  1. Anchorage Plaza
    590 feet
  2. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    660 feet
  3. Cadman Plaza Park
    690 feet
  4. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    1,250 feet
  5. Walt Whitman Park
    1,260 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    600 feet
  2. Brooklyn Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    780 feet
  3. Pearl Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at 203 Jay Street Public space
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dumbo Industrial District Listed historic place
    950 feet
  2. Public School 7 Listed historic place
    1,060 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    900 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 40 places to eat and six food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 23 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Pearl Street or Prospect 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.