8th Avenue & Montgomery Place

The three-way junction of 8th Avenue and Montgomery Place is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It lies inside the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Temple House stands 360 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about six minutes on foot, and six subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
1,120 feet
7 Av/Garfield Pl · B67, B69
Within a walk
12 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & Montgomery Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

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

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, 1,120 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/Garfield Pl B67, B69
    1,120 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Garfield Pl & 8 Ave 25 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 99 Prospect Park West Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

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
122 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1890 and 1922.

Trees

NYC Parks records 99 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 8th Avenue

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

North side of Montgomery Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Montgomery Place

  • No parking 5 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, 566 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1888 and 1899.

  1. The Temple House Designated landmark
    360 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Beth Elohim Ecc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    450 feet
  2. Old First Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,050 feet
  3. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    830 feet
  2. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,100 feet
  3. Garfield Tot Lot Playground
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. Grand Army Plaza
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Park Slope Historic District Listed historic place
    670 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth Elohim Congregation Landmark
    210 feet
  2. Church of the Virgin Mary House of worship
    850 feet
  3. Old First Reformed Church Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    980 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,240 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and six food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 8th Avenue or Montgomery Place.

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.