8th Avenue & 15th Street

The four-way crossing of 8th Avenue and 15th Street is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. A designated landmark, 14th Regiment Armory, stands 300 feet away. The nearest subway, 15 St-Prospect Park, is about three minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them religious buildings, and 44 places to eat. About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1900 and 1920, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
15 St-Prospect Park
840 feet · 3 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
15 St/8 Av · B61
Within a walk
10 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & 15th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 15 St-Prospect Park, 840 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 15 St-Prospect Park F, G
    840 feet
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. 7 Av F, G
    0.3 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 15 St/8 Av, 50 feet away, for the B61.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 15 St/8 Av B61
    50 feet
    B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 15th Street.

  • 32 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Windsor Pl & 8 Ave 20 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 668 3rd Avenue Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 266 13th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported ten 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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
72 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
155 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are 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 1900 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 15th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 15th Street

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

East side of 8th Avenue

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

West side of 8th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 270 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1887 and 1902.

  1. 14th Regiment Armory Designated landmark
    300 feet
  2. Sanders (now Pavilion) Theatre Designated landmark
    690 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 107 John W. Kimball School · landmark
    510 feet
  2. Slope Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    950 feet
  3. Chickpeas Childcare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bartel-Pritchard Square
    630 feet
  2. The Bandshell in Prospect Park Park feature
    870 feet
  3. Prospect Park
    900 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 15th Street - Prospect Park Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    200 feet
  2. Park Slope Jewish Center Landmark · listed historic place
    320 feet
  3. Kolot Chayeinu Congregation House of worship
    1,180 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 44 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 15th Street or 8th Avenue.

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 and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.