Prospect Park West & 1st Street

Prospect Park West and 1st 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. The Temple House stands 700 feet away, and Third Street Playground is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places and one place to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
7 Av/Garfield Pl · B67, B69
Within a walk
14 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 park features and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Park West & 1st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

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/Garfield Pl, 0.3 miles away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/Garfield Pl B67, B69
    0.3 miles
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 St & Prospect Park West 31 docks in all
    580 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
    1.5 miles
  2. 99 Prospect Park West Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1,120 feet

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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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; the corner is on the edge of the Prospect Park area
Elevation
144 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 198 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 1st Street

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

South side of 1st 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
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

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, 286 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1896 and 1909.

  1. The Temple House Designated landmark
    700 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Panthers Statue by Alexander Phimister Proctor, 1898
    490 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 park features
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Poly Prep Lower School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    90 feet
  2. Chai Tots Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    490 feet
  3. Congregation Beth Elohim Ecc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    870 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    50 feet
  2. Garfield Tot Lot Playground
    340 feet
  3. Litchfield Villa in Prospect Park Park feature · listed historic place
    550 feet
Show all 7
  1. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    840 feet
  2. Third Street Playground
    1,000 feet
  3. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,010 feet
  4. Grand Army Plaza
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Park Slope Historic District Listed historic place
    930 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth Elohim Congregation Landmark
    1,020 feet
  2. Church of the Virgin Mary House of worship
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

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 1st 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.