Grand Army Plaza & Plaza Street East at Plaza Street West

Grand Army Plaza, Plaza Street East and Plaza Street West meet at a five-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn, at the edge of Prospect Park. Between 2021 and 2025, 30 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Grand Army Plaza is 50 feet away, and the statue “Quadriga: the Triumphal Progress of Columbia” is 220 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about four minutes on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, five of them park features, and three places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
30 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
1,020 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
20 places
5 park features, 3 monuments or memorials and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Grand Army Plaza & Plaza Street East at Plaza Street West Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 1,020 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
    1,020 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, 120 feet away, for the B41.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 56 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 9 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
    170 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. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1.1 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 30 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

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)
Park Slope; the corner is on the edge of the Prospect Park area
Elevation
140 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,200 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 90 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Grand Army Plaza

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 39 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical and neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1886 and 1900.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    200 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest at Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch.

  1. The Navy: American Sailors At Sea Urged On By the Genius of Patriotism Relief by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1901
    180 feet
  2. Ulysses S. Grant Bas-relief by Thomas Eakins and William Rudolph O'Donovan, 1901
    180 feet
  3. Quadriga: the Triumphal Progress of Columbia Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1898
    220 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty 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
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    50 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    170 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    250 feet
Show all 9
  1. Mount Prospect Park
    650 feet
  2. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    660 feet
  3. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    690 feet
  4. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    960 feet
  5. Mt Prospect Park Playground
    1,120 feet
  6. Flower Garden Pavilion in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    240 feet
  2. Central Library Landmark · listed historic place
    410 feet
  3. Central Library Learning Center Library · landmark · listed historic place
    410 feet
Show all 6
  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    440 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    880 feet
  3. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    360 feet
  2. Duryea Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food 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 three places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Grand Army Plaza, Plaza Street East or Plaza Street West.

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