Roebling Street & Williamsburg Bridge

Roebling Street and Williamsburg Bridge meet at a four-way crossing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The statue “George Washington at Valley Forge” is 130 feet away. About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more. NYC Parks records 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

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Roebling Street & Williamsburg Bridge

Cycling

  • 81 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 6 of them on-street corrals

By car

A ramp to the Williamsburg Bridge starts at this corner.

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
11211
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
90
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Williamsburg
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Seven buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical, and built between 1852 and 1908.

  1. Williamsburgh Trust Company Building Designated landmark
    190 feet
  2. Williamsburgh Savings Bank Designated landmark
    470 feet
  3. New England Congregational Church Designated landmark
    610 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Williamsburg Bridge Plaza and Playground.

  1. George Washington at Valley Forge Statue by Henry Merwin Shrady, 1906
    130 feet

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bus stop within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission and NYC Parks, retrieved September 18–30, 2026.