Flatbush Avenue & 8th Avenue

Flatbush Avenue and 8th Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Skene Monument is 440 feet away, and General Henry Warner Slocum Monument is 1,190 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about a minute on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
23 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
270 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Flatbush Av/8 Av · B41, B69
Within a walk
15 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & 8th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 270 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    270 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. 7 Av B, Q
    720 feet
    B Q
  2. Bergen St 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

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/8 Av, 30 feet away, for the B41 and B69.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/8 Av B41, B69
    30 feet
    B41 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 78 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 5 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Plaza St West & Flatbush Ave 49 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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.

  • 23 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 1999

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
115 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 10am to 7pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 8am to 7pm on Flatbush Avenue (east side).

East side of 8th Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 8th Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-7:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING SATURDAY 7AM-7:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 336102 and 337867.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 298 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1880 and 1889.

  1. Montauk Club Designated landmark
    360 feet
  2. Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist Designated landmark
    540 feet
  3. The Berkeley Institute Designated landmark
    590 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Dr. Alexander J.C. Skene Bust by John Massey Rhind, 1905
    430 feet
  2. John F. Kennedy Memorial Bust by Neil Estern, 1965
    640 feet
  3. Bailey Fountain Fountain by Eugene F. Savage, 1932
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 monuments or memorials
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. The Nook Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    870 feet
  2. I.S. 340 School
    950 feet
  3. Park Slope Child Care Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    990 feet
Show all 5
  1. Berkeley-Carroll School
    1,120 feet
  2. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    360 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    440 feet
  3. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    1,070 feet
  2. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace United Methodist Church Landmark
    790 feet
  2. Memorial Presbyterian Church House of worship
    990 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    70 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,050 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 8th Avenue or Flatbush Avenue.

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