8th Avenue & Windsor Place

The four-way crossing of 8th Avenue and Windsor Place is in Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Park Slope Jewish Center is 850 feet away, and P.S. 107 John W. Kimball is 1,030 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 14 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 44 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
15 St-Prospect Park
1,070 feet · 4 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
570 feet
15 St/8 Av · B61
Within a walk
14 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & Windsor Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 15 St-Prospect Park, 1,070 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 15 St-Prospect Park F, G
    1,070 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
    0.4 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 15 St/8 Av, 570 feet away, for the B61.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Windsor Pl & 8 Ave 20 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 668 3rd Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 266 13th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2022
  • 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
163 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 1905 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 8th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 8th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Windsor Place

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

South side of Windsor Place

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 60 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1892 and 1906.

  1. 14th Regiment Armory Designated landmark
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Therapy and Learning Center Preschool
    820 feet
  2. St Joseph the Worker Catholic Acad School
    880 feet
  3. P.S. 107 John W. Kimball School
    1,030 feet
Show all 6
  1. Magnet School of Math, Science and Design Technology School
    1,120 feet
  2. Chickpeas Childcare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  3. Mesilas Bais Yaakov School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bartel-Pritchard Square
    1,130 feet
  2. Butterfly Gardens Garden
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 15th Street - Prospect Park Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    340 feet
  2. Park Slope Jewish Center Listed historic place
    850 feet
  3. Shepherds Hall House of worship
    990 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    840 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 44 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 8th Avenue or Windsor 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.