6th Avenue & Garfield Place

The four-way crossing of 6th Avenue and Garfield Place is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Old First Reformed Church is 1,080 feet away. The nearest subway, Union St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 51 places to eat. About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1920, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Union St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
860 feet
7 Av/Garfield Pl · B67, B69
Within a walk
9 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
6th Avenue & Garfield 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 eight minutes on foot.

  1. Union St R
    0.4 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

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

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/Garfield Pl, 860 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/Garfield Pl B67, B69
    860 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 1 St & 6 Ave 35 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 510 5th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two 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 March 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
76 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and December 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 6th Avenue

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

West side of 6th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Garfield Place

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Garfield Place

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. The Berkley Carroll Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    530 feet
  2. P.S. 321 William Penn School
    980 feet
  3. P.S. 321 Pre-K
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. Old First Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,080 feet
  2. Sunflower Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Francis Xavier Church House of worship
    410 feet
  2. Old First Reformed Church Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 1 Fire station
    1,200 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,000 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,070 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    1,140 feet
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 51 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 6th Avenue or Garfield Place.

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