Garfield Place & Polhemus Place

Garfield Place and Polhemus 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. Beth Elohim Congregation is 600 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about nine 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 day care or pre-K sites, and 35 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
7 Av/Garfield Pl · B67, B69
Within a walk
10 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Garfield Place & Polhemus Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    0.5 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, 340 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 43 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Garfield Pl & 8 Ave 25 docks in all
    490 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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

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
102 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1892 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 82 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2021 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Garfield Place

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Polhemus Place

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

West side of Polhemus Place

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

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 376 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1888 and 1898.

  1. The Temple House Designated landmark
    630 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Old First Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    560 feet
  2. Congregation Beth Elohim Ecc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    700 feet
  3. P.S. 321 William Penn School
    740 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Berkley Carroll Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,200 feet
  2. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Park Slope Historic District Listed historic place
    920 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Old First Reformed Church Listed historic place
    560 feet
  2. Beth Elohim Congregation Landmark
    600 feet
  3. Church of the Virgin Mary Landmark
    1,100 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    640 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    910 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    640 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 places to eat and six 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 Garfield Place or Polhemus 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.