8th Avenue & 16th Street

The four-way crossing of 8th Avenue and 16th Street is in Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Memorial Baptist Church is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, 15 St-Prospect Park, is about four minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 45 places to eat. About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & 16th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 15 St-Prospect Park, 980 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 15 St-Prospect Park F, G
    980 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, 310 feet away, for the B61.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Windsor Pl & 8 Ave 20 docks in all
    290 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 four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 7
City Council district
39
Police precinct
72
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Windsor Terrace-South Slope
Elevation
159 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 1901 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 16th Street

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

South side of 16th Street

  • No parking 12 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 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 155 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1890 and 1905.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 107 John W. Kimball School · landmark
    770 feet
  2. Chickpeas Childcare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  3. Therapy and Learning Center Preschool
    1,080 feet
Show all 5
  1. St Joseph the Worker Catholic Acad School
    1,150 feet
  2. Slope Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bartel-Pritchard Square
    870 feet
  2. The Bandshell in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,130 feet
  3. Prospect Park
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 15th Street - Prospect Park Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    100 feet
  2. Park Slope Jewish Center Landmark · listed historic place
    590 feet
  3. Shepherds Hall House of worship
    1,250 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,100 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 45 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 16th Street or 8th Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.