Flatbush Avenue & Grand Army Plaza

Flatbush Avenue and Grand Army Plaza meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Prospect Park is 80 feet away, and the decorative panels “Brooklyn Public Library Gates” are 150 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 two places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
1,180 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
60 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
Flatbush Avenue & Grand Army Plaza Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 1,180 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
    1,180 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, 60 feet away, for the B41.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Flatbush Avenue and Grand Army Plaza.

  • 54 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 8 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
    320 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

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
City Council district
35 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Park
Elevation
144 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 900 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 1920 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 103 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese flowering 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 27 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical. They were mostly built between 1886 and 1900.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    330 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
    150 feet
  2. James S.T. Stranahan Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1891
    180 feet
  3. Four Eagles Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1901
    260 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

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    70 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    80 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    180 feet
Show all 9
  1. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    500 feet
  2. Mount Prospect Park
    600 feet
  3. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    760 feet
  4. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,040 feet
  5. Flower Garden Pavilion in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,090 feet
  6. Mt Prospect Park Playground
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Central Library Landmark · listed historic place
    250 feet
  2. Central Library Learning Center Library · landmark · listed historic place
    250 feet
  3. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    400 feet
Show all 5
  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    520 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    520 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Park Slope Food Coop 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 two places to eat and two food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Grand Army Plaza.

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.