State Street & Garden Place

State Street and Garden Place meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. St. Charles Orthopedic Hospital stands 500 feet away. The nearest subway, Borough Hall/Court St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 2, 3, 4, 5 and R. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 31 places to eat. About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Borough Hall/Court St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, R
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
Atlantic Av/Henry St · B61, B63
Within a walk
19 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
State Street & Garden Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Borough Hall/Court St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  1. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
5 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …
  5. R …
Outbound
4 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
  3. 4 …
  4. 5 …
Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Atlantic Av/Henry St, 520 feet away, for the B61 and B63.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av/Henry St B61, B63
    520 feet
    B61 B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …
  2. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Henry St & Atlantic Ave 23 docks in all
    450 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 1,290 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 September 2012.

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)
Brooklyn Heights
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 106 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

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

East side of Garden Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

West side of Garden Place

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • Other rule 4 signs PARKING PERMITTED TUESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

North side of State Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 477 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1846 and 1879.

  1. St. Charles Orthopedic Hospital Designated landmark
    500 feet
  2. 1st Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn Designated landmark
    630 feet
  3. South Brooklyn Neighborhood Houses (Settlement House) Designated landmark
    640 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. MS Lam Montessori School
    470 feet
  2. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    580 feet
  3. Long Island Coll Hosp Sch of Nrsing College
    760 feet
Show all 7
  1. St. Ann's Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    870 feet
  2. Grace Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    960 feet
  3. Mary McDowell Friends - Upper School
    990 feet
  4. Brooklyn Preschool of Science Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Adam Yauch Park
    520 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Park Playground
    520 feet
  3. Van Voorhees Playground
    640 feet
Show all 5
  1. Adam Yauch Playground Dog Run
    710 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    1,230 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospital - Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Ambulatory Care Center Hospital
    760 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Listed historic place
    800 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Church Brooklyn Heights Landmark
    960 feet
  2. St Charles Borromeo Church House of worship
    1,070 feet
  3. Antioch Pentecostal Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 224 Fire station
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 places to eat and eight food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Garden Place or State 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.