Water Street & Adams Street

Water Street and Adams Street meet at a three-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the DUMBO Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Robert Gair Company stands 90 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 28 public places, six of them day care or pre-K sites, and 73 places to eat. About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
York St
940 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
840 feet
York St/Jay St · B67
Within a walk
28 places
6 day care or pre-K sites, 6 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Water Street & Adams Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    940 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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York St/Jay St, 840 feet away, for the B67.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St/Jay St B67
    840 feet
    B67

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Adams Street and Water Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Front St & Washington St 57 docks in all
    450 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 35 Red Cross Place Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 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 2016.

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
14 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 91 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Adams Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of Water Street

  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Water Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the DUMBO Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 66 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as American Round Arch, and built between 1835 and 2006.

  1. Robert Gair Company Designated landmark
    90 feet
  2. Nesmith & Sons' Empire Stores Designated landmark
    680 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 6 parks
  • 5 schools
  • 3 park features
  • 2 libraries
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    450 feet
  2. Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute New Trade or language school
    660 feet
  3. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    680 feet
Show all 12
  1. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    830 feet
  2. Bright Horizons at Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  3. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    900 feet
  4. Explore Enrich Charter School
    930 feet
  5. Success Academy Charter School-Nyc 15 School
    930 feet
  6. Dock Street School for Steam Studies School
    1,100 feet
  7. District 13 Pre-K Center at 25 Dock Street Pre-K center
    1,100 feet
  8. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    1,110 feet
  9. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    340 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Park Playground
    600 feet
  3. Riverview Lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park Park feature
    670 feet
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  1. Red Twig Forest in Brooklyn Bridge Park Park feature
    760 feet
  2. Pearl Street Terrace in Brooklyn Bridge Park Park feature
    870 feet
  3. Anchorage Plaza
    890 feet
  4. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    940 feet
  5. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    1,080 feet
  6. Bridge Park 3 Park
    1,180 feet
  7. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,280 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Pearl Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dumbo Industrial District Listed historic place
    330 feet
  2. Adams Street Library
    630 feet
  3. Teen Tech Center at the Annex Library
    830 feet
Show all 4
  1. Manhattan Bridge Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. St Anns Warehouse Theater or concert hall · listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    600 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    770 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 73 places to eat and five food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 27 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Adams Street or Water Street.

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