Plaza Street East & Butler Place

Plaza Street East and Butler Place meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The bust “John F. Kennedy Memorial” is 360 feet away, and James Forten Playground is 1,220 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 19 public places, three of them monuments or memorials, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
700 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Vanderbilt Av/Plaza St East · B69
Within a walk
19 places
3 monuments or memorials, 3 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Plaza Street East & Butler Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 700 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
    700 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. 7 Av B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q
  2. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

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 Vanderbilt Av/Plaza St East, 300 feet away, for the B69.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Vanderbilt Av/Plaza St East B69 · Shelter
    300 feet
    B69
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Plaza Street East.

  • 81 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 14 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Plaza St East & Flatbush Ave 63 docks in all
    680 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 mile
  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
    2.7 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 November 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
127 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,400 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 1915 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 172 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
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Plaza Street East

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 137 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1897 and 1903.

  1. Public School No. 9 Annex Designated landmark
    490 feet
  2. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    670 feet
  3. Montauk Club Designated landmark
    730 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Grand Army Plaza.

  1. John F. Kennedy Memorial Bust by Neil Estern, 1965
    360 feet
  2. Dr. Alexander J.C. Skene Bust by John Massey Rhind, 1905
    370 feet
  3. Bailey Fountain Fountain by Eugene F. Savage, 1932
    430 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 monuments or memorials
  • 3 parks
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 libraries
  • 6 other places

This corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza.

Schools and child care

  1. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    580 feet
  2. I.S. 340 School
    670 feet
  3. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · listed historic place
    1,120 feet
Show all 4
  1. Montessori Day School of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    surrounds this corner
  2. Prospect Park
    940 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,020 feet
Show all 5
  1. Mount Prospect Park
    1,110 feet
  2. James Forten Playground
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    510 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    540 feet
  3. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    620 feet
Show all 7
  1. Central Library Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  2. Central Library Learning Center Library · listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  3. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    1,190 feet
  4. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    580 feet
  2. Duryea Presbyterian Church Landmark
    850 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    960 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,000 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and eight 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 Butler Place or Plaza Street East.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.