Parade Place & Woodruff Avenue

Parade Place and Woodruff Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush, Brooklyn, at the edge of Prospect Park. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Parade Ground is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them parks. About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1921 and 1951, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
1,250 feet · 5 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
750 feet
Caton Av/E 16 St · B16
Within a walk
9 places
3 parks, 3 park features and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Parade Place & Woodruff Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 1,250 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av B, Q
    1,250 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Parkside Av Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Caton Av/E 16 St, 750 feet away, for the B16.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Caton Av/E 16 St B16
    750 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Parade Pl & Crooke Ave 30 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 378 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 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 foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush; the corner is on the edge of the Prospect Park area
Elevation
57 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 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 1921 and 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and December 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Parade Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Woodruff Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

South side of Woodruff Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Classical Revival, and built in 1904.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 3 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Practical Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Parade Ground Park
    50 feet
  2. Detective Dillon Stewart Playground
    300 feet
  3. Prospect Park
    340 feet
Show all 8
  1. Croquet Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature · landmark · listed historic place
    680 feet
  2. Parkside Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature
    900 feet
  3. Rustic Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature
    920 feet
  4. Umma Park
    1,160 feet
  5. Umma Park Playground
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Parade Place or Woodruff Avenue.

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