York Street & Pearl Street

York Street and Pearl Street meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the DUMBO Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park is 320 feet away, and Teen Tech Center at the Annex is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about a minute on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, six of them parks, and 49 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
York St
320 feet · 1 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
York St/Jay St · B67
Within a walk
27 places
6 parks, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
York Street & Pearl Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 320 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    320 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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York St/Jay St, 220 feet away, for the B67.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Pearl Street and York Street.

  • 76 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
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 1,050 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  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
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported eight 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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, November 2020

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
33 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,900 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 582 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Pearl Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Pearl Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of York Street

  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of York Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the DUMBO Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 45 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as American Round Arch. They were built between 1877 and 2006.

  1. Robert Gair Company Designated landmark
    640 feet
  2. Thomson Meter Company Building Designated landmark
    740 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Underpasses.

  1. This Way Light installation by Linnaea Tillett and Karin Tehve, 2009
    650 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 6 parks
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 2 libraries
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 9 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    330 feet
  2. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    490 feet
  3. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    490 feet
Show all 10
  1. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    460 feet
  2. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    520 feet
  3. Amg School of Nursing College
    780 feet
  4. Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute New Trade or language school
    910 feet
  5. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
  6. Explore Enrich Charter School
    1,170 feet
  7. Success Academy Charter School-Nyc 15 School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    320 feet
  2. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    450 feet
  3. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    870 feet
Show all 10
  1. Bridge Park 3 Park
    560 feet
  2. Anchorage Plaza
    630 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    920 feet
  4. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,010 feet
  5. Brooklyn Bridge Park Playground
    1,180 feet
  6. Pearl Street Terrace in Brooklyn Bridge Park Park feature
    1,230 feet
  7. Riverview Lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park Park feature
    1,260 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Pearl Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    640 feet
  2. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    840 feet
  3. Brooklyn Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    990 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dumbo Industrial District Listed historic place
    630 feet
  2. Public School 7 Listed historic place
    740 feet
  3. Adams Street Library
    1,060 feet
Show all 4
  1. Teen Tech Center at the Annex Library
    1,160 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    500 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    570 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 49 places to eat and seven food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 26 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Pearl Street or York Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.