Prospect Avenue & Jackson Place

Prospect Avenue and Jackson Place meet at a three-way junction in Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, 92 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Magnet School of Math, Science and Design Technology is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Av, is about eight minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
7 Av/Prospect Av · B67, B69
Within a walk
18 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Avenue & Jackson Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Av R
    0.4 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. 15 St-Prospect Park F, G
    0.4 miles
    F G
  2. 7 Av F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Duration” (2017) by Monika Bravo at the Prospect Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av/Prospect Av, 280 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/Prospect Av B67, B69 · Shelter
    280 feet
    B67 B69
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 32 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 7 Ave & 17 St 21 docks in all
    540 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1,080 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 668 3rd Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 266 13th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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 April 2018.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 92 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,773rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 72 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 7
City Council district
39
Police precinct
72
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Windsor Terrace-South Slope
Elevation
137 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 97 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and August 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Jackson Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Jackson Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Prospect Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Queen Anne, and built in 1889.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Prospect Kids Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    80 feet
  2. Bumblebees R US Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    140 feet
  3. Magnet School of Math, Science and Design Technology School
    570 feet
Show all 8
  1. Chickpeas Childcare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
  2. J.H.S. 088 Peter Rouget School
    1,060 feet
  3. P.S. K053 School
    1,060 feet
  4. Brooklyn Sandbox Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  5. Slope Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Detective Joseph Mayrose Park
    260 feet
  2. Butterfly Gardens Garden
    680 feet
  3. Purple Playground
    740 feet
Show all 5
  1. Slope Park Playground
    1,070 feet
  2. 6/15 Green Community Garden
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Hall Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John St Matthew Emanuel Lutheran Church House of worship
    800 feet
  2. Resurrection Coptic Catholic Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 283 Prospect Avenue Older adult center
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and seven food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Jackson Place or Prospect Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.