President Street & Prospect Park West

President Street and Prospect Park West meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn, at the edge of Prospect Park. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The statue “Four Eagles” is 300 feet away, and the statue “James S.T. Stranahan” is 380 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about five minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, four of them park features, and two places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
1,210 feet · 5 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
740 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
18 places
4 park features, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
President Street & Prospect Park West Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 1,210 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
    1,210 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
    0.4 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, 740 feet away, for the B41.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Prospect Park West.

  • 39 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. Grand Army Plaza & Plaza St West 39 docks in all
    470 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 99 Prospect Park West Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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; the corner is on the edge of the Prospect Park area
Elevation
145 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1890 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 254 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of President Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of President Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Prospect Park West

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 203 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1887 and 1899.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    490 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. Four Eagles Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1901
    300 feet
  2. James S.T. Stranahan Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1891
    380 feet
  3. General Gouverneur Kemble Warren Statue by Henry Baerer, 1896
    420 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
  2. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · landmark · listed historic place
    980 feet
  3. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,020 feet
Show all 4
  1. Poly Prep Lower School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    40 feet
  2. Grand Army Plaza
    250 feet
  3. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    430 feet
Show all 8
  1. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    520 feet
  2. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    870 feet
  3. Garfield Tot Lot Playground
    900 feet
  4. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    940 feet
  5. Mount Prospect Park
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    450 feet
  2. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    880 feet
  3. Central Library Landmark · listed historic place
    980 feet
Show all 5
  1. Central Library Learning Center Library · landmark · listed historic place
    980 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along President Street or Prospect Park West.

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