Carroll Street & Polhemus Place

Carroll Street and Polhemus Place meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Temple House stands 790 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about eight minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and 36 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
7 Av/Garfield Pl · B67, B69
Within a walk
11 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Carroll Street & Polhemus 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 eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 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 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, 560 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 54 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Garfield Pl & 8 Ave 25 docks in all
    900 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 two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 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
107 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,600 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 1923.

Trees

NYC Parks records 77 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2021 and December 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 7pm on Carroll Street (north side).

South 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 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Polhemus Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Polhemus Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 307595 and 332194.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 379 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1886 and 1895.

  1. The Temple House Designated landmark
    790 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Old First Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    340 feet
  2. The Berkley Carroll Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    830 feet
  3. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care
    920 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 321 Pre-K
    960 feet
  2. Congregation Beth Elohim Ecc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
  3. P.S. 321 William Penn School
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Old First Reformed Church Listed historic place
    340 feet
  2. Beth Elohim Congregation Landmark
    750 feet
  3. St Francis Xavier Church House of worship
    1,040 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 1 Fire station
    1,030 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    270 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    530 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    600 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    400 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  3. Associated Supermarkets 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 36 places to eat and nine food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Carroll Street or Polhemus 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.