6th Avenue & St Johns Place

The four-way crossing of 6th Avenue and St Johns Place is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It lies inside the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 282 Park Slope is 490 feet away, and the Rectory of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church stands 530 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 47 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
870 feet
5 Av/Saint Johns Pl · B63
Within a walk
22 places
9 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
6th Avenue & St Johns Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bergen St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. 7 Av B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q
  2. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/Saint Johns Pl, 870 feet away, for the B63.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/Saint Johns Pl B63
    870 feet
    B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Prospect Pl & 6 Ave 25 docks in all
    820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

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
67 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1880 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 4 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and October 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 6th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of St Johns Place

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

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 439 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1876 and 1886.

  1. St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church Designated landmark
    370 feet
  2. St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church School Designated landmark
    450 feet
  3. The Rectory of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    530 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Kids-Centric - Helen Owen Carey CDC School
    410 feet
  2. P.S. 282 Park Slope School
    490 feet
  3. M.S. K266 - Park Place Community Middle School
    650 feet
Show all 10
  1. P.S. K077 School
    650 feet
  2. Bpos of Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    760 feet
  3. Park Slope Child Care Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    790 feet
  4. Ms. Lam Montessori School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    920 feet
  5. The Nook Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,000 feet
  6. Berkeley-Carroll School
    1,150 feet
  7. Eladia's Kids Parent Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Park Slope Playground
    660 feet
  2. Lincoln-Berkeley Community Garden
    880 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sixth Ave Baptist Church Landmark
    240 feet
  2. St Augustine RC Church House of worship
    480 feet
  3. Memorial Presbyterian Church Landmark
    790 feet
Show all 5
  1. Grace United Methodist Church House of worship
    890 feet
  2. St Francis Xavier Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 1 Fire station
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    1,260 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,270 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 47 places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 6th Avenue or St Johns 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.