East Drive & Wellhouse Drive

East Drive and Wellhouse Drive meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Willink Hill in Prospect Park is 10 feet away, and Midwood in Prospect Park is 430 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about four minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, nine of them park features, and three places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
1,040 feet · 4 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
880 feet
Ocean Av/Lincoln Rd · B16
Within a walk
15 places
9 park features, 2 playgrounds and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East Drive & Wellhouse Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 1,040 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    1,040 feet
    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, 880 feet away, for the B16.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lincoln Rd & Ocean Ave 23 docks in all
    860 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

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 April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Park

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 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 1939.

Trees

NYC Parks records 322 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the black cherry.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1888 and 1904.

  1. Music Pagoda Designated landmark
    730 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 museum
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

This corner stands inside Prospect Park.

Schools and child care

  1. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    surrounds this corner
  2. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    10 feet
  3. Boat House in Prospect Park Park feature · landmark · listed historic place
    240 feet
Show all 12
  1. Lincoln Road Playground
    390 feet
  2. Midwood in Prospect Park Park feature
    430 feet
  3. Lullwater in Prospect Park Park feature
    430 feet
  4. Breeze Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    520 feet
  5. Concert Grove in Prospect Park Park feature
    750 feet
  6. Flower Garden in Prospect Park Park feature
    890 feet
  7. Carousel in Prospect Park Park feature
    930 feet
  8. Music Pagoda in Prospect Park Park feature
    980 feet
  9. Imagination Playground
    990 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Historic House Museum
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. John Hus Moravian Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East Drive or Wellhouse Drive.

Sources: 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 Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.