Remsen Street & Brooklyn Heights Promenade

Remsen Street and Brooklyn Heights Promenade meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Brooklyn Heights Promenade is 40 feet away, and Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Cathedral is 1,180 feet away. The nearest subway, Borough Hall/Court St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2, 3, 4, 5 and R. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Borough Hall/Court St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, R
Nearest bus stop
0.4 miles
Cadman Plaza West/Remsen St · B25, B26, B38, B41
Within a walk
10 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Remsen Street & Brooklyn Heights Promenade Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Borough Hall/Court St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  1. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    0.3 miles
    2 3 4 5 R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
5 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …
  5. R …
Outbound
4 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …
Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Clark St 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cadman Plaza West/Remsen St, 0.4 miles away, for the B25, B26, B38 and B41.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cadman Plaza West/Remsen St B25, B26, B38, B41
    0.4 miles
    B25 B26 B38 B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …
  2. B26 …
  3. B38 …
  4. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Montague St & Hicks St 36 docks in all
    840 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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)
Brooklyn Heights

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph

Homes

About 2,300 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 1889 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 242 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1847 and 1899.

  1. High Pressure Fire Service - Main Pumping station Designated landmark
    420 feet
  2. Hotel Bossert Designated landmark
    700 feet
  3. South Brooklyn Neighborhood Houses (Settlement House) Designated landmark
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Grace Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    640 feet
  2. Altschool Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    810 feet
  3. Brooklyn Autism Center Academy School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    40 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    230 feet
  3. Pierrepont Playground
    500 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Church Brooklyn Heights Landmark
    640 feet
  2. Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Cathedral House of worship
    1,180 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 224 Fire station
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    930 feet
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Heights Promenade or Remsen Street.

Sources: MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.