Prospect Park West & 9th Street

Prospect Park West and 9th 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, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Bandshell in Prospect Park is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, 7 Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them park features, and three places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
7 Av
800 feet · 3 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Prospect Park West/9 St · B61
Within a walk
10 places
4 park features, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Park West & 9th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 7 Av, 800 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 7 Av F, G
    800 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
    0.3 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Prospect Park West/9 St, 140 feet away, for the B61.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 9th Street and Prospect Park West.

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 378 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1.4 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 eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2018

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
158 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1897 and 1909.

Trees

NYC Parks records 174 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

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

North side of 9th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of 9th Street

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

West side of Prospect Park West

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

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, 325 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Italian Renaissance, and mostly built between 1891 and 1903.

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
    90 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 park features
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Bumblebees R US Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet
  2. Saint Saviour Nursery School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,260 feet
  3. St Saviour Catholic Academy School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Bandshell in Prospect Park Park feature
    30 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    50 feet
  3. Lafayette Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    80 feet
Show all 6
  1. Harmony Playground
    310 feet
  2. Litchfield Villa in Prospect Park Park feature · listed historic place
    440 feet
  3. Middle Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kolot Chayeinu Congregation House of worship
    1,170 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 9th 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.