Flatbush Avenue & Grand Army Plaza

Flatbush Avenue and Grand Army Plaza meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 38 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The bust “Dr. Alexander J.C. Skene” is 130 feet away, and Memorial Presbyterian Church is 1,210 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 18 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and 31 places to eat.

Safety record
42 hurt
38 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
70 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Flatbush Av/Plaza St East · B41, B69
Within a walk
18 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Grand Army Plaza Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 70 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
    70 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
    1,090 feet
    B Q
  2. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.5 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/Plaza St East, 140 feet away, for the B41 and B69.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Plaza St East B41, B69
    140 feet
    B41 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Flatbush Avenue carries a bus lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Plaza St West & Flatbush Ave 49 docks in all
    150 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
    0.9 miles
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 38 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 42 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 186 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the black cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Farmers market 1 sign FARMERS MARKET ONLY SATURDAY 6AM-7PM
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 8 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 203 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1883 and 1895.

  1. Montauk Club Designated landmark
    240 feet
  2. Public School No. 9 Annex Designated landmark
    670 feet
  3. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    720 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
    130 feet
  2. John F. Kennedy Memorial Bust by Neil Estern, 1965
    270 feet
  3. Bailey Fountain Fountain by Eugene F. Savage, 1932
    410 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 monuments or memorials
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 340 School
    830 feet
  2. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  3. Park Slope Child Care Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,210 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet
  2. The Nook Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,240 feet
  3. Montessori Day School of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    100 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    970 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    130 feet
  2. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    700 feet
  3. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    730 feet
Show all 5
  1. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    780 feet
  2. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,160 feet
  2. Memorial Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,210 feet
  3. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    390 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 places to eat and nine food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Grand Army Plaza.

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