Prospect Park West & Prospect Park Southwest

Prospect Park West and Prospect Park Southwest meet at a four-way crossing in Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Brooklyn, at the edge of Prospect Park. The corner stands inside Bartel-Pritchard Square. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Lower Long Meadow in Prospect Park is 640 feet away. The nearest subway, 15 St-Prospect Park, is about a minute on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 35 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
15 St-Prospect Park
60 feet · 1 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Prospect Park Southwest/Bartel Pritchard Sq · B68
Within a walk
12 places
5 religious buildings, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Park West & Prospect Park Southwest Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 15 St-Prospect Park, 60 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 15 St-Prospect Park F, G
    60 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
    0.4 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Prospect Park Southwest/Bartel Pritchard Sq, 50 feet away, for the B68.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Park Southwest/Bartel Pritchard Sq B68
    50 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 32 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 378 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 266 13th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.8 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
City Council district
39
Police precinct
72 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Windsor Terrace-South Slope; the corner is on the edge of the Prospect Park area
Elevation
151 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 104 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
  • 5 different rules

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

North side of Prospect Park Southwest

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Prospect Park Southwest

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Prospect Park West

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Farmers market 1 sign FARMERS MARKET ONLY MAY 1 - DEC 31 SUNDAY 6AM-5PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 153 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1892 and 1904.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

This corner stands inside Bartel-Pritchard Square.

Schools and child care

  1. St Joseph the Worker Catholic Acad School
    690 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bartel-Pritchard Square
    surrounds this corner
  2. Prospect Park
    70 feet
  3. The Bandshell in Prospect Park Park feature
    90 feet
Show all 5
  1. Lower Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    640 feet
  2. Harmony Playground
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Houses of worship

  1. Shepherds Hall House of worship
    800 feet
  2. Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    1,180 feet
  3. Park Slope Jewish Center Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    700 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Prospect Park Southwest 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.