Grand Army Plaza & Plaza Street East

Grand Army Plaza and Plaza Street East meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The relief “The Navy: American Sailors At Sea Urged On By the Genius of Patriotism” is 110 feet away, and Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch stands 130 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about three minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, four of them park features, and three places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
890 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
20 places
4 park features, 3 monuments or memorials and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 890 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    890 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, 250 feet away, for the B41.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 64 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
    120 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four 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

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
138 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,600 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 152 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 50 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1886 and 1900.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    130 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
    110 feet
  2. Ulysses S. Grant Bas-relief by Thomas Eakins and William Rudolph O'Donovan, 1901
    110 feet
  3. Quadriga: the Triumphal Progress of Columbia Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1898
    140 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 park features
  • 3 monuments or memorials
  • 3 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 libraries
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    400 feet
  2. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · landmark · listed historic place
    530 feet
  3. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
Show all 4
  1. I.S. 340 School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    80 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    300 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    370 feet
Show all 8
  1. Mount Prospect Park
    720 feet
  2. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    790 feet
  3. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    790 feet
  4. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,070 feet
  5. Mt Prospect Park Playground
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    150 feet
  2. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    460 feet
  3. Central Library Landmark · listed historic place
    530 feet
Show all 6
  1. Central Library Learning Center Library · landmark · listed historic place
    530 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    740 feet
  3. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    400 feet
  2. Duryea Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

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

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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.