East Drive & Grand Army Plaza

East Drive and Grand Army Plaza meet at a four-way crossing in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The bas-relief “Ulysses S. Grant” is 140 feet away, and Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park is 180 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, five of them park features, and three places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
1,020 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
18 places
5 park features, 3 monuments or memorials and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East Drive & Grand Army Plaza Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 1,020 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    1,020 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. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3
  2. 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 Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza, 230 feet away, for the B41.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza B41 · Shelter
    230 feet
    B41
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on East Drive and Grand Army Plaza.

  • 57 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 9 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Plaza St East & Flatbush Ave 63 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
142 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,300 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 1910 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 105 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Grand Army Plaza

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 82 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1886 and 1899.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    140 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest at Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch.

  1. The Navy: American Sailors At Sea Urged On By the Genius of Patriotism Relief by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1901
    130 feet
  2. Ulysses S. Grant Bas-relief by Thomas Eakins and William Rudolph O'Donovan, 1901
    140 feet
  3. The Army: Genius of Patriotism Urging American Soldiers On To Victory Relief by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1900
    150 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

This corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza.

Schools and child care

  1. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · landmark · listed historic place
    460 feet
  2. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    500 feet
  3. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    510 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    surrounds this corner
  2. Prospect Park
    150 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    180 feet
Show all 9
  1. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    550 feet
  2. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    620 feet
  3. Mount Prospect Park
    790 feet
  4. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    820 feet
  5. Flower Garden Pavilion in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,090 feet
  6. Mt Prospect Park Playground
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    310 feet
  2. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    360 feet
  3. Central Library Landmark · listed historic place
    460 feet
Show all 5
  1. Central Library Learning Center Library · landmark · listed historic place
    460 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    900 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    500 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food 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 three places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East Drive, Grand Army Plaza or Plaza Street West.

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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.