Prospect Park West & Grand Army Plaza

Prospect Park West and Grand Army Plaza meet at a four-way crossing in Park Slope, Brooklyn, at the edge of Prospect Park. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Grand Army Plaza is 20 feet away, and Central Library is 670 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about three minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, five of them park features, and three places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
900 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
430 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
18 places
5 park features, 3 monuments or memorials and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Park West & Grand Army Plaza Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 900 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    900 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3
  2. 7 Av B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q

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 Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza, 430 feet away, for the B41.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza B41 · Shelter
    430 feet
    B41
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 54 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Grand Army Plaza & Plaza St West 39 docks in all
    230 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 99 Prospect Park West Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 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.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
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
142 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • Three of the streets are 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 1893 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 145 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2021 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Grand Army Plaza

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Prospect Park West

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Prospect Park West

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 161 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1886 and 1899.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    190 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Grand Army Plaza.

  1. General Gouverneur Kemble Warren Statue by Henry Baerer, 1896
    150 feet
  2. The Army: Genius of Patriotism Urging American Soldiers On To Victory Relief by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1900
    160 feet
  3. Abraham Lincoln Relief by Thomas Eakins and William Rudolph O'Donovan, 1901
    180 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 park features
  • 3 monuments or memorials
  • 3 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 libraries
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    310 feet
  2. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · landmark · listed historic place
    670 feet
  3. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    710 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    20 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    140 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    330 feet
Show all 9
  1. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    680 feet
  2. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    740 feet
  3. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    750 feet
  4. Mount Prospect Park
    1,000 feet
  5. Garfield Tot Lot Playground
    1,210 feet
  6. Flower Garden Pavilion in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    150 feet
  2. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    570 feet
  3. Central Library Landmark · listed historic place
    670 feet
Show all 5
  1. Central Library Learning Center Library · landmark · listed historic place
    670 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    860 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    710 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Grand Army Plaza, Plaza Street West 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.