President Street & 8th Avenue

President Street and 8th Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The statue “General Gouverneur Kemble Warren” is 760 feet away, and Church of the Virgin Mary is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about five minutes on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
1,250 feet · 5 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
7 Av/Union St · B67, B69
Within a walk
15 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
President Street & 8th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 1,250 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    1,250 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
    0.4 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 7 Av/Union St, 940 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/Union St B67, B69
    940 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Garfield Pl & 8 Ave 25 docks in all
    750 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 510 5th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2025.

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
121 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1888 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 85 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 8th Avenue

  • Carshare only 2 signs CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of 8th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of President Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of President Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 500 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1886 and 1896.

  1. The Temple House Designated landmark
    800 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Grand Army Plaza.

  1. General Gouverneur Kemble Warren Statue by Henry Baerer, 1896
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 park features
  • 1 fire station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet
  2. Congregation Beth Elohim Ecc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    900 feet
  3. Old First Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    980 feet
Show all 5
  1. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care
    1,170 feet
  2. P.S. 321 Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    820 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    830 feet
  3. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,210 feet
Show all 4
  1. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    1,000 feet
  2. Park Slope Historic District Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth Elohim Congregation Landmark
    660 feet
  2. Old First Reformed Church Listed historic place
    980 feet
  3. Church of the Virgin Mary House of worship
    1,300 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 1 Fire station
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    840 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    860 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown 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 11 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 8th Avenue or President Street.

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.