8th Avenue & Garfield Place

The four-way crossing of 8th Avenue and Garfield Place is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It lies inside the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Beth Elohim Congregation is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about seven minutes on foot, and six subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
860 feet
7 Av/Garfield Pl · B67, B69
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & Garfield Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wings for the IRT: The Irresistible Romance of Travel” (1995) by Jane Greengold at the Grand Army Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av/Garfield Pl, 860 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Garfield Pl & 8 Ave 25 docks in all
    40 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. 510 5th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2023

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
118 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1892 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 85 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2014 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 8th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 8th Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Garfield Place

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

South side of Garfield Place

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

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 575 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1889 and 1903.

  1. The Temple House Designated landmark
    130 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Beth Elohim Ecc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    190 feet
  2. Old First Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,070 feet
  3. Poly Prep Lower School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,130 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 321 William Penn School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    830 feet
  2. Garfield Tot Lot Playground
    900 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Park Slope Historic District Listed historic place
    400 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth Elohim Congregation Landmark
    100 feet
  2. Church of the Virgin Mary Landmark
    590 feet
  3. Old First Reformed Church Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and six food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 8th Avenue or Garfield Place.

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