8th Avenue & 1st Street

The four-way crossing of 8th Avenue and 1st Street is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It lies inside the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,587 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The Temple House stands 210 feet away. The nearest subway, 7 Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 22 places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & 1st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 7 Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av F, G
    0.4 miles
    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. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av/Garfield Pl, 950 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Garfield Pl & 8 Ave 25 docks in all
    280 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
    1.2 miles
  2. 99 Prospect Park West Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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 foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,587 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 521st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 792 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
115 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1893 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 72 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of 1st Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of 1st Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of 8th Avenue

  • Carshare only 2 signs CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 8th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 555 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1890 and 1908.

  1. The Temple House Designated landmark
    210 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Beth Elohim Ecc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    450 feet
  2. Poly Prep Lower School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    870 feet
  3. P.S. 321 William Penn School
    1,000 feet
Show all 4
  1. Chai Tots Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    830 feet
  2. Garfield Tot Lot Playground
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Park Slope Historic District Listed historic place
    140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of the Virgin Mary Landmark
    330 feet
  2. Beth Elohim Congregation Landmark
    330 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 1st Street or 8th Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.