Sands Street & Brooklyn Bridge

Sands Street and Brooklyn Bridge meet at a three-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The light installation “This Way” is 450 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, five of them parks, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
York St
930 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Sands St/Pearl St · B69
Within a walk
14 places
5 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sands Street & Brooklyn Bridge Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 930 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    930 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
    0.3 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sands St/Pearl St, 230 feet away, for the B69.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 51 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 660 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
    0.5 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 eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

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
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,500 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 561 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the eastern white pine.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Adams Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Adams Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Sands Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Sands Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Five buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as American Round Arch, and mostly built between 1882 and 1889.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest at Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Underpasses.

  1. This Way Light installation by Linnaea Tillett and Karin Tehve, 2009
    450 feet
  2. William Jay Gaynor Memorial Bust by Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1926
    640 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 public spaces
  • 2 schools
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    390 feet
  2. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    390 feet
  3. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    560 feet
Show all 5
  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  2. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bridge Park 3 Park
    590 feet
  2. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    700 feet
  3. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    820 feet
Show all 6
  1. Anchorage Plaza
    950 feet
  2. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    1,030 feet
  3. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,050 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    630 feet
  2. Brooklyn Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    810 feet
  3. Public space at 203 Jay Street Public space
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,260 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and two food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Bridge or Sands Street.

Sources: NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, 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 and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.