6th Avenue & Berkeley Place

The four-way crossing of 6th Avenue and Berkeley Place is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It lies inside the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Park Slope Playground is 240 feet away, and St Augustine RC Church is 1,030 feet away. The nearest subway, Union St, is about seven minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 44 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Union St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
790 feet
7 Av/Berkeley Pl · B67, B69
Within a walk
20 places
7 religious buildings, 5 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
6th Avenue & Berkeley Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Union St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Union St R
    0.4 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Bergen St 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3
  2. 7 Av B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “CommUnion” (1994) by Emmett Wigglesworth at the Union St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av/Berkeley Pl, 790 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/Berkeley Pl B67, B69
    790 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Berkeley Place.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Berkeley Pl & 6 Ave 41 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 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
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
68 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1886 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 83 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 6th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 6th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Berkeley Place

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Berkeley Place

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 292 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1877 and 1887.

  1. The Rectory of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 282 Park Slope School
    310 feet
  2. Kids-Centric - Helen Owen Carey CDC School
    520 feet
  3. P.S. 321 Pre-K
    860 feet
Show all 9
  1. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care
    920 feet
  2. The Berkley Carroll Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,000 feet
  3. Park Slope Child Care Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,200 feet
  4. M.S. K266 - Park Place Community Middle School
    1,210 feet
  5. P.S. K077 School
    1,210 feet
  6. Berkeley-Carroll School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Park Slope Playground
    240 feet
  2. Lincoln-Berkeley Community Garden
    650 feet
  3. Green Space at President Street Garden
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sixth Ave Baptist Church Landmark
    330 feet
  2. St Francis Xavier Church House of worship
    700 feet
  3. St Augustine RC Church House of worship
    1,030 feet
Show all 4
  1. Memorial Presbyterian Church Landmark
    1,200 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 1 Fire station
    740 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,270 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    710 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    1,130 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 44 places to eat and six food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 6th Avenue or Berkeley Place.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.