Prospect Park West & 7th Street

Prospect Park West and 7th Street meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The stele “Lafayette Memorial” is 530 feet away, and Harmony Playground is 830 feet away. The nearest subway, 7 Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them park features, and two places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
7 Av
1,250 feet · 5 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
670 feet
Prospect Park West/9 St · B61
Within a walk
13 places
4 park features, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Park West & 7th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 7 Av, 1,250 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 7 Av F, G
    1,250 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. 15 St-Prospect Park F, G
    0.4 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Prospect Park West/9 St, 670 feet away, for the B61.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Park West/9 St B61
    670 feet
    B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Prospect Park West & 8 St 25 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

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

  1. 378 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1.5 miles
  2. 352 8th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 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
Elevation
164 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 1900 and 1910.

Trees

NYC Parks records 209 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
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and October 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 7th Street

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

South side of 7th Street

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

West side of Prospect Park West

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 303 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical. They were mostly built between 1899 and 1909.

  1. St. Saviour's School Designated landmark
    700 feet
  2. Grace Hill, Litchfield House, Litchfield Villa Designated landmark
    730 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
    530 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 park features
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. St Saviour Catholic Academy School
    780 feet
  2. Saint Saviour Nursery School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    820 feet
  3. St Saviour High School
    870 feet
Show all 5
  1. Chai Tots Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  2. Bumblebees R US Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Litchfield Villa in Prospect Park Park feature · listed historic place
    40 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    50 feet
  3. The Bandshell in Prospect Park Park feature
    110 feet
Show all 6
  1. Lafayette Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    520 feet
  2. Harmony Playground
    830 feet
  3. Middle Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    940 feet

Health care

  1. Newyork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Saviour Church House of worship
    900 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 7th Street or Prospect Park West.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.