Willow Street & Orange Street

Willow Street and Orange Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Fruit Street Sitting Area is 280 feet away. The nearest subway, Clark St, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them parks, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clark St
1,120 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Old Fulton St/Henry St · B25
Within a walk
18 places
7 parks, 4 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Willow Street & Orange Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clark St, 1,120 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clark St 2, 3
    1,120 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. High St A, C
    0.3 miles
    A C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Clark Street Passage” (1987) by Ray Ring at the Clark St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Old Fulton St/Henry St, 0.3 miles away, for the B25.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Old Fulton St/Henry St B25
    0.3 miles
    B25

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Columbia Heights & Cranberry St 37 docks in all
    540 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

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
69 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 133 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and March 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Orange Street

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

South side of Orange Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • Other rule 4 signs PARKING PERMITTED WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

East side of Willow Street

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

West side of Willow Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 298 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1840 and 1899.

  1. Hotel Margaret Designated landmark
    180 feet
  2. Towers Hotel Designated landmark
    390 feet
  3. Franklin Arms Hotel Designated landmark
    500 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 parks
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Plymouth Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    310 feet
  2. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    1,000 feet
  3. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    280 feet
  2. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    420 feet
  3. Harry Chapin Playground
    480 feet
Show all 9
  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    530 feet
  2. Hillside Dog Park
    540 feet
  3. Squibb Park
    620 feet
  4. Fort Stirling Park
    710 feet
  5. Poplar Street Community Garden
    830 feet
  6. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn War Memorial Monument or memorial
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Plymouth Church Landmark · listed historic place
    480 feet
  2. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church House of worship
    640 feet
  3. First Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,070 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 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 20 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Orange Street or Willow 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.