8th Avenue & 5th Street

The four-way crossing of 8th Avenue and 5th Street is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It lies on the edge of the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Saviour High School is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, 7 Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, six of them schools, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
7 Av
990 feet · 4 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
7 Av/6 St · B67, B69
Within a walk
17 places
6 schools, 5 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & 5th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 7 Av, 990 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 7 Av F, G
    990 feet
    F G

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av/6 St, 950 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/6 St B67, B69 · Countdown sign
    950 feet
    B67 B69
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 6 St & 7 Ave 21 docks in all
    990 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1.4 miles
  2. 99 Prospect Park West Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    860 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
134 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 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 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

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 January 2021 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 5th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 5th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

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

West side of 8th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 421 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical, and mostly built between 1892 and 1909.

  1. St. Saviour's School Designated landmark
    600 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Saint Saviour Nursery School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    560 feet
  2. St Saviour High School
    570 feet
  3. St Saviour Catholic Academy School
    630 feet
Show all 8
  1. Cyberarts Studio Academy School
    700 feet
  2. John Jay School for Law School
    700 feet
  3. Millennium Brooklyn HS School
    700 feet
  4. Park Slope Collegiate School
    700 feet
  5. Bumblebees R US Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    900 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Litchfield Villa in Prospect Park Park feature · listed historic place
    820 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    830 feet

Health care

  1. Newyork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
    760 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Park Slope Historic District Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Saviour Church House of worship
    330 feet
  2. Church of the Virgin Mary Landmark
    730 feet
  3. Greenwood Baptist Church Listed historic place
    980 feet
Show all 4
  1. All Saints Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 5th Street or 8th Avenue.

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