Sands Street & Manhattan Bridge Bike Path

Sands Street and Manhattan Bridge Bike Path meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School is 380 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about two minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, five of them parks, and 32 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
York St
470 feet · 2 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Prospect St/Jay St · B67
Within a walk
20 places
5 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sands Street & Manhattan Bridge Bike Path Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 470 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    470 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
  2. Jay St-MetroTech A, C, F, R
    0.5 miles
    A C F R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Prospect St/Jay St, 190 feet away, for the B67.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect St/Jay St B67
    190 feet
    B67

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Manhattan Bridge Bike Path and Sands Street.

  • 57 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
    90 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 390 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

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

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is 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 512 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1888 and 1909.

  1. Thomson Meter Company Building Designated landmark
    530 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    380 feet
  2. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    380 feet
  3. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    650 feet
Show all 7
  1. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    690 feet
  2. Amg School of Nursing College
    980 feet
  3. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 feet
  4. Community High School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bridge Park 3 Park
    50 feet
  2. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    210 feet
  3. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    360 feet
Show all 6
  1. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    540 feet
  2. Anchorage Plaza
    1,040 feet
  3. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,140 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    360 feet
  2. Brooklyn Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    510 feet
  3. Pearl Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,200 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at 203 Jay Street Public space
    870 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public School 7 Listed historic place
    970 feet
  2. Dumbo Industrial District Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St James Cathedral Basilica Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    910 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    800 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 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 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Manhattan Bridge Bike Path or Sands Street.

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