St Johns Place & Plaza Street East

St Johns Place and Plaza Street East meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument is 210 feet away, and Endale Arch in Prospect Park is 1,130 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, three of them monuments or memorials, and five places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
990 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
19 places
3 monuments or memorials, 3 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Johns Place & Plaza Street East Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 990 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    990 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, 540 feet away, for the B41.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Plaza Street East and St Johns Place.

  • 82 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 11 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Plaza St East & Flatbush Ave 63 docks in all
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 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 September 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
133 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,900 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 1915 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 202 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Plaza Street East

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 56 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1897 and 1906.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    470 feet
  2. Public School No. 9 Annex Designated landmark
    780 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Bailey Fountain Fountain by Eugene F. Savage, 1932
    380 feet
  2. John F. Kennedy Memorial Bust by Neil Estern, 1965
    420 feet
  3. Ulysses S. Grant Bas-relief by Thomas Eakins and William Rudolph O'Donovan, 1901
    450 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

This corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza.

Schools and child care

  1. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    280 feet
  2. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · landmark · listed historic place
    820 feet
  3. I.S. 340 School
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    surrounds this corner
  2. Prospect Park
    640 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    720 feet
Show all 7
  1. Mount Prospect Park
    810 feet
  2. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,130 feet
  3. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,140 feet
  4. Mt Prospect Park Playground
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    210 feet
  2. Central Library Landmark · listed historic place
    820 feet
  3. Central Library Learning Center Library · landmark · listed historic place
    820 feet
Show all 6
  1. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    840 feet
  2. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    900 feet
  3. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    920 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    280 feet
  2. Duryea Presbyterian Church Landmark
    810 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,300 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket 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 five 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 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Plaza Street East or St Johns 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.