Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Sands Street and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway meet at a three-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Maritcha R. Lyons Park is 400 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about three minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, four of them parks, and 26 places to eat. About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1992 and 2018, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
York St
660 feet · 3 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
Sands St/Jay St · B67, B69
Within a walk
18 places
4 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 660 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    660 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
  2. Jay St-MetroTech A, C, F, R
    0.5 miles
    A C F R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sands St/Jay St, 340 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sands St/Jay St B67, B69
    340 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 41 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sands St & Jay St 48 docks in all
    120 feet

By car

A ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound starts at this corner.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  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
    2.3 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)
Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
Elevation
53 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,600 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 535 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1908 and 1909.

  1. Thomson Meter Company Building Designated landmark
    550 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 public spaces
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    520 feet
  2. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    520 feet
  3. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    830 feet
Show all 7
  1. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    880 feet
  2. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  3. Amg School of Nursing College
    1,170 feet
  4. Community High School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bridge Park 3 Park
    230 feet
  2. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    400 feet
  3. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    550 feet
Show all 5
  1. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    730 feet
  2. Anchorage Plaza
    1,210 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    390 feet
  2. Brooklyn Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    480 feet
  3. Public space at 203 Jay Street Public space
    880 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public School 7 Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St James Cathedral Basilica Church House of worship
    1,250 feet
  2. Open Door Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gold Organic Farm Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    990 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and four 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 nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or Sands Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYCHA, 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.