Prospect Place & Brooklyn Avenue

Prospect Place and Brooklyn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Crown Heights North Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brower Park Playground is 320 feet away, and P.S. 289 George V. Brower is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Brooklyn Av/Park Pl · B43
Within a walk
16 places
6 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Place & Brooklyn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Park Pl, 440 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Park Pl B43
    440 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Brooklyn Avenue.

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Prospect Pl 25 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2024
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
76 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1906 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 112 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2021 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • Electric vehicle charging only 2 signs ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING ONLY
  • Farmers market 2 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY JUNE 1 - NOV 30 THURSDAY 7AM-4PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Prospect Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Prospect Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Crown Heights North Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 292 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1897 and 1909.

  1. NYC Dept. of Social Services Child Day Care Center Designated landmark
    360 feet
  2. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Designated landmark
    640 feet
  3. Trinity Baptist Church Designated landmark
    680 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 library
  • 1 museum
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  2. P.S. 289 George V. Brower School
    1,110 feet
  3. Arista Preparatory School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    70 feet
  2. Brower Park Playground
    320 feet

Health care

  1. Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice · landmark
    620 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brower Park Library
    320 feet
  2. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    320 feet
  3. Crown Heights North Historic District Listed historic place
    690 feet
Show all 4
  1. Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gregory the Great RC Church House of worship
    800 feet
  2. First Church of God in Christ House of worship
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Prospect Place.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.