Prospect Park West & 12th Street

Prospect Park West and 12th Street meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn, at the edge of Prospect Park. The corner lies on the edge of the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 5,352 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The Bandshell in Prospect Park is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, 15 St-Prospect Park, is about two minutes on foot, for the F and G.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
15 St-Prospect Park
600 feet · 2 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Prospect Park West/12 St · B61
Within a walk
10 places
3 park features, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Park West & 12th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 15 St-Prospect Park, 600 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 15 St-Prospect Park F, G
    600 feet
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. 7 Av F, G
    0.3 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Prospect Park West/12 St, 110 feet away, for the B61.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Park West/12 St B61
    110 feet
    B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. West Drive & Prospect Park West 29 docks in all
    770 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 378 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 266 13th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2023.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 5,352 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 149th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 2,220 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
150 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1896 and 1902.

Trees

NYC Parks records 143 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2020 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 12th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of 12th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Prospect Park West

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 320 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical and neo-Italian Renaissance, and mostly built between 1890 and 1900.

  1. Sanders (now Pavilion) Theatre Designated landmark
    620 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Prospect Park.

  1. Lafayette Memorial Stele by Daniel Chester French, 1917
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 park features
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 107 John W. Kimball School · landmark
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Bandshell in Prospect Park Park feature
    30 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    40 feet
  3. Harmony Playground
    400 feet
Show all 6
  1. Bartel-Pritchard Square
    620 feet
  2. Lafayette Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    790 feet
  3. Litchfield Villa in Prospect Park Park feature · listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 15th Street - Prospect Park Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    960 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kolot Chayeinu Congregation House of worship
    1,180 feet
  2. Park Slope Jewish Center Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Street or Prospect Park West.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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 and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.