East Drive & Center Drive

East Drive and Center Drive meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Carousel in Prospect Park is 550 feet away, and Music Pagoda in Prospect Park is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about six minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, nine of them park features, and one place to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
1,310 feet
Ocean Av/Lincoln Rd · B16
Within a walk
13 places
9 park features, 1 museum and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East Drive & Center Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.3 miles
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4” (1994) by Susan Tunick at the Prospect Park station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Lincoln Rd, 1,310 feet away, for the B16.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Lincoln Rd B16
    1,310 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Center Drive and East Drive.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Flatbush Ave & Ocean Ave 41 docks in all
    1,050 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 378 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1.4 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.4 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.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Park
Elevation
88 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 140 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1936.

Trees

NYC Parks records 353 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the tuliptree.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and seven buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1777 and 1904.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 park features
  • 1 museum
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 zoo or aquarium

This corner stands inside Prospect Park.

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    surrounds this corner
  2. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    90 feet
  3. Carousel in Prospect Park Park feature
    550 feet
Show all 12
  1. Music Pagoda in Prospect Park Park feature
    570 feet
  2. Boat House in Prospect Park Park feature · landmark · listed historic place
    670 feet
  3. Lincoln Road Playground
    820 feet
  4. Lullwater in Prospect Park Park feature
    870 feet
  5. Breeze Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    950 feet
  6. Binnen Water in Prospect Park Park feature
    960 feet
  7. Prospect Park Zoo Zoo or aquarium
    1,000 feet
  8. Ravine Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,080 feet
  9. Concert Grove in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Historic House Museum · landmark
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Center Drive or East Drive.

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