Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway

Prospect Avenue and Prospect Expressway (Exit 2) 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. P.S. 124 Silas B. Dutcher is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Av, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them day care or pre-K sites, and 29 places to eat. About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Av
120 feet · 1 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
5 Av/Prospect Av · B63
Within a walk
16 places
7 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Av, 120 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Av R
    120 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 4 Av-9 St F, G, R
    0.4 miles
    F G R
  2. 25 St R
    0.5 miles
    R

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/Prospect Av, 680 feet away, for the B63.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/Prospect Av B63
    680 feet
    B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 33 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 4 Ave & 17 St 23 docks in all
    200 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 17th Street & Prospect Expressway, 710 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 668 3rd Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 266 13th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 May 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 7
City Council district
38
Police precinct
72
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Windsor Terrace-South Slope
Elevation
57 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 75 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Treehouse Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet
  2. Cuddle Avenue Daycare 2 Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,030 feet
  3. P.S. 124 Silas B. Dutcher School
    1,140 feet
Show all 9
  1. Family Health Centers at NYU Langone Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  2. Park Slope Schoolhouse Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,190 feet
  3. Giocare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet
  4. Honeydew Drop Playhouse Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,260 feet
  5. Honeydew Nook Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet
  6. Al-Noor School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Purple Playground
    800 feet
  2. Triangle Three Sixteen Park
    1,010 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Hall Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Free Methodist Church House of worship
    240 feet
  2. St John St Matthew Emanuel Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 283 Prospect Avenue Older adult center
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    920 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Prospect Avenue or Prospect Expressway.

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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.