Carroll Street & 8th Avenue

Carroll Street and 8th Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside 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. Prospect Park is 840 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about six minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
1,080 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
Carroll Street & 8th Avenue 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
  • 4 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

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, 1,080 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/Garfield Pl B67, B69
    1,080 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Garfield Pl & 8 Ave 25 docks in all
    490 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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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
123 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,100 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 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 94 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2020 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 8th Avenue

  • Carshare only 2 signs CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of 8th Avenue

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

North side of Carroll Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 9AM-9:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Carroll Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 545 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1887 and 1898.

  1. The Temple House Designated landmark
    540 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 monument or memorial
  • 1 park feature

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Beth Elohim Ecc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    640 feet
  2. Old First Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    860 feet
  3. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    840 feet
  2. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,050 feet
  3. Grand Army Plaza
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Park Slope Historic District Listed historic place
    850 feet
  2. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth Elohim Congregation Landmark
    400 feet
  2. Old First Reformed Church Listed historic place
    860 feet
  3. Church of the Virgin Mary House of worship
    1,040 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    790 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,050 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    920 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and five 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 Carroll Street.

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.