Garfield Place & Fiske Place

Garfield Place and Fiske Place meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Old First Reformed Church is 810 feet away, and Garfield Tot Lot is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about eight minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings, and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
7 Av/Garfield Pl · B67, B69
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Garfield Place & Fiske Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    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 F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

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 7 Av/Garfield Pl, 590 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/Garfield Pl B67, B69
    590 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 36 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Garfield Pl & 8 Ave 25 docks in all
    240 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 510 5th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
110 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • 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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1891 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 91 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Fiske Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Fiske Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Garfield Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 505 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1888 and 1900.

  1. The Temple House Designated landmark
    380 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Beth Elohim Ecc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    450 feet
  2. Old First Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  3. P.S. 321 William Penn School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    1,090 feet
  2. Garfield Tot Lot Playground
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Park Slope Historic District Listed historic place
    660 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth Elohim Congregation Landmark
    350 feet
  2. Old First Reformed Church Listed historic place
    810 feet
  3. Church of the Virgin Mary Landmark
    850 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    900 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,170 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    890 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and five food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Fiske Place or Garfield Place.

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