Berkeley Place & Plaza Street West

Berkeley Place and Plaza Street West meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza and lies on the edge of 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. General Warren Statue is 350 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about two minutes on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
560 feet · 2 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
640 feet
Flatbush Av/Plaza St East · B41, B69
Within a walk
17 places
4 park features, 3 monuments or memorials and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Berkeley Place & Plaza Street West Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 560 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    560 feet
    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
    0.3 miles
    B Q
  2. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

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 Flatbush Av/Plaza St East, 640 feet away, for the B41 and B69.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Plaza St East B41, B69
    640 feet
    B41 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Berkeley Place and Plaza Street West.

  • 39 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Grand Army Plaza & Plaza St West 39 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 99 Prospect Park West Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
132 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1889 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 202 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Berkeley Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Plaza Street West

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 260 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1884 and 1896.

  1. Montauk Club Designated landmark
    400 feet
  2. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    500 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Grand Army Plaza.

  1. General Gouverneur Kemble Warren Statue by Henry Baerer, 1896
    330 feet
  2. Bailey Fountain Fountain by Eugene F. Savage, 1932
    380 feet
  3. John F. Kennedy Memorial Bust by Neil Estern, 1965
    410 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 park features
  • 3 monuments or memorials
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 libraries
  • 2 parks
  • 4 other places

This corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza.

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    360 feet
  2. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · listed historic place
    1,200 feet
  3. Berkeley-Carroll School
    1,210 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    surrounds this corner
  2. Prospect Park
    600 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    830 feet
Show all 6
  1. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,170 feet
  2. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,200 feet
  3. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    350 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    640 feet
  3. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    1,160 feet
Show all 6
  1. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    1,100 feet
  2. Central Library Listed historic place
    1,200 feet
  3. Central Library Learning Center Library · listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    1,230 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    820 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Berkeley Place or Plaza Street West.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.