Prospect Place & East New York Avenue

Prospect Place and East New York Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Howard Pool is 540 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about nine minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, 18 of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1954 and 1985, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Rockaway Av/Prospect Pl · B12, B60
Within a walk
29 places
18 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Place & East New York Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av C
    0.4 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Atlantic Av L
    0.5 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Av/Prospect Pl, 90 feet away, for the B12 and B60.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av/Prospect Pl B12, B60
    90 feet
    B12 B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …
  2. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East New York Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & St Marks Ave 23 docks in all
    520 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2111 Monaco Place Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
52 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1954 and 1985.

Since 2014 at least 253 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in November 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East New York Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 18 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Kindergarten Society Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
  2. Brooklyn Sky Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    760 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Howard Pool Park
    540 feet
  2. Ocean Hill Playground
    850 feet
  3. Howard Playground
    1,220 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 44 Ambulance station
    820 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brownsville Library
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Presentation & Loreto Church House of worship
    490 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at Brown Older adult center
    830 feet
  2. Older adult center at 1440 East New York Avenue Older adult center
    1,190 feet
  3. Howard Community Center
    1,290 feet

Fire and police

  1. 73rd Precinct Police station
    990 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    690 feet
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East New York Avenue or Prospect Place.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.