Prospect Heights

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Prospect Heights is a small neighborhood bounded by Flatbush Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, Washington Avenue and Eastern Parkway, which begins at Grand Army Plaza.

  • 0.37 square miles
  • 23,515 residents, 2020 Census
  • 54 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 7 bus routes

Its tree-lined interior is made up mostly of brownstone rowhouses, some of them dating back to 1890, and in 2009 the city designated the Prospect Heights Historic District, the fifth largest in New York City. Across Eastern Parkway stand the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Central Library, a limestone building with Art Deco detailing designed to resemble an open book, which opened in 1941, and Grand Army Plaza's Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch was completed in 1892.

Sources: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Central Library (Brooklyn Public Library); The Crown Jewel of Brooklyn (Museum of the City of New York).

Map

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Prospect Heights borders six areas, and Washington Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 13 of 54.

Street map of Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, outlined among Park Slope, Crown Heights (North), Clinton Hill and Prospect Park, with its two subway stations and Dean Playground.Clinton HillCrown Heights (North)Crown Heights (South)Prospect ParkPark SlopeFort Greene
  • Prospect Heights
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 7 Av lines B Q
  • Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum lines 2 3 accessible

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on seven routes stop in or at the edge of Prospect Heights.

  • 2 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 7 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B41
  • B45
  • B48
  • B65
  • B67
  • B69
  • B116

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,002 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 18.6 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 1 corner with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 27 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
22
Turn calming
7
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Accessible pedestrian signals
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 8,036 school-zone speed camera tickets at two corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Washington Avenue & Eastern Parkway, 5,016

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 23,515 residents in Prospect Heights, about 63,600 per square mile.

  • 11,454 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,913 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,672 residential lots hold buildings from 1901 or earlier, and 89% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
4.1 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Dean Playground (1.4 acres), Stroud Playground (1.2 acres) and Grand Army Plaza (0.8 acre)
Historic district
Prospect Heights Historic District, wholly or partly within Prospect Heights

Streets and trees

Trees
1,715 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Washington Avenue, with 13 of the area's 54
Height above sea level
From 55 feet at Atlantic Avenue & South Oxford Street to 152 feet at Washington Avenue & Eastern Parkway
Honorary street name
1 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists six schools in Prospect Heights.

Public schools
5
Charter or private school
1

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 13 bike-share stations stand in Prospect Heights. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Reverend Benjamin J. Lowry (1982).

  • 13 bike-share stations
  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 132 major felonies at places in Prospect Heights.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Prospect Heights

  • 150 major felonies in 2024
  • 466 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Prospect Heights, the NYPD recorded another 102 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 10.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Prospect Heights.

Map of Prospect Heights: 6 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Prospect Heights, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Prospect Heights, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Prospect Heights are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Prospect Heights and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
77th (most of the area), 78th
Major felonies recorded at places in Prospect Heights, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 65 major felonies at places in Prospect Heights, against 60 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.