Eastern Parkway & Underhill Avenue

Eastern Parkway and Underhill Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Mount Prospect Park is 120 feet away, and Bard Brooklyn Public Library is 450 feet away. The nearest subway, Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, is about four minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, three of them parks, and five places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Underhill Avenue.

Safety record
19 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum
970 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
17 places
3 parks, 3 park features and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Eastern Parkway & Underhill Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, 970 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    970 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. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3
  2. 7 Av B, Q
    0.5 miles
    B Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “New York City Architectural Artifacts from the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum” (2004) by MTA Arts & Design Collaborative at the Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza, 600 feet away, for the B41.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Underhill Avenue.

  • 85 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 10 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Underhill Ave & Lincoln Pl 27 docks in all
    390 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
150 feet above sea level

Homes

About 2,000 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 1915 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 92 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 42 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2015 and January 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Eastern Parkway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 15 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Eastern Parkway

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Underhill Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Underhill Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 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 14 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built in 1915.

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

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Grand Army Plaza Library.

  1. Brooklyn Public Library Gates Decorative panels by Thomas Hudson Jones, 1941
    330 feet
  2. The Navy: American Sailors At Sea Urged On By the Genius of Patriotism Relief by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1901
    650 feet
  3. Ulysses S. Grant Bas-relief by Thomas Eakins and William Rudolph O'Donovan, 1901
    650 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    220 feet
  2. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · landmark · listed historic place
    450 feet
  3. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mount Prospect Park
    120 feet
  2. Grand Army Plaza
    370 feet
  3. Mt Prospect Park Playground
    600 feet
Show all 7
  1. Prospect Park
    700 feet
  2. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    780 feet
  3. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,190 feet
  4. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Central Library Landmark · listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. Central Library Learning Center Library · landmark · listed historic place
    450 feet
  3. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    520 feet
Show all 5
  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    970 feet
  2. Brooklyn Museum Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    220 feet
  2. Duryea Presbyterian Church Landmark
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Eastern Parkway or Underhill Avenue.

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.