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How walkable is Downtown Brooklyn?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Downtown Brooklyn has a walkability score of 100 out of 100 across the 450 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Brooklyn, which scores 92 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
3,728 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Downtown Brooklyn. The nearest grocery is The Fresh Grocer, about 2 minutes away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- Trader Joe's6 min
- Lidl6 min
- Mr. Fulton1 min
- 375° Chicken 'n Fries1 min
- Eyes On Fulton Inc1 min
- JD Sports1 min
- Ethiopian Coffee shop2 min
- Metro Star Café2 min
- Bank of America Financial Center2 min
- Municipal Credit Union4 min
- Columbus Park4 min
- Brooklyn Commons4 min
- Brooklyn Kindergarten Society2 min
- Brooklyn Prospect Downtown Elementary School2 min
- BEOC Library4 min
- McNally Jackson Books5 min
- New York Transit Museum5 min
- Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Brooklyn5 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Downtown Brooklyn at 40.6916, -73.9868. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 109 street intersections per km², and blocks average 102 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Downtown Brooklyn
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 450 m around the centre of Downtown Brooklyn. Rings mark 200 m and 450 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Brooklyn
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Heights | 850 m | 99 |
| Park Slope | 2.4 km | 96 |
| Bedford–Stuyvesant | 3.9 km | 94 |
| Crown Heights | 4.5 km | 94 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Brooklyn page.
Questions about walking in Downtown Brooklyn
Is Downtown Brooklyn walkable?
Yes. Downtown Brooklyn has a walkability score of 100 out of 100 across the 450 m around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Downtown Brooklyn more walkable than the rest of Brooklyn?
Downtown Brooklyn is more walkable than Brooklyn as a whole: it scores 100, against 92 for the 5 km around Brooklyn's centre. It ranks 1st of the 5 Brooklyn neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Brooklyn?
Of the 5 Brooklyn neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Downtown Brooklyn (100), Brooklyn Heights (99) and Park Slope (96).
How is the walkability score of Downtown Brooklyn calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Downtown Brooklyn it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 450 m around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.