Sands Street & Pearl Street

Sands Street and Pearl Street meet at a five-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bridge Park 3 is 440 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about three minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, five of them parks, and 30 places to eat. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1992 and 2018, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
6 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
York St
780 feet · 3 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Sands St/Pearl St · B69
Within a walk
18 places
5 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sands Street & Pearl Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 780 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    780 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. Clark St 2, 3
    0.5 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sands St/Pearl St, 70 feet away, for the B69.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 48 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 510 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 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

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
62 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,600 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 561 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the cherry and the Japanese tree lilac.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Pearl Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Pearl Street

  • No standing 3 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 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Sands Street

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Three buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as American Round Arch, and built between 1882 and 1888.

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
    590 feet
  2. William Jay Gaynor Memorial Bust by Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1926
    790 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bridge Park 3 Park
    440 feet
  2. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    540 feet
  3. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    670 feet
Show all 6
  1. Anchorage Plaza
    800 feet
  2. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    870 feet
  3. Cadman Plaza Park
    900 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    470 feet
  2. Brooklyn Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    650 feet
  3. Pearl Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,180 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at 203 Jay Street Public space
    990 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dumbo Industrial District Listed historic place
    1,160 feet
  2. Public School 7 Listed historic place
    1,270 feet
  3. Thomson Meter Company Building Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,110 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 19 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Bridge, Pearl Street or Sands Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, 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 Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.