St Johns Place & Underhill Avenue

St Johns Place and Underhill Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Grand Army Plaza is 500 feet away, and Central Library is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about six minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them parks, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
1,070 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
15 places
3 parks, 2 libraries and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Johns Place & Underhill Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    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, 1,070 feet away, for the B41.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza B41 · Shelter
    1,070 feet
    B41
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Johns Place and Underhill Avenue.

  • 53 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 10 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Underhill Ave & Lincoln Pl 27 docks in all
    180 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
137 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph

Homes

About 2,900 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 1911 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 43 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2020 and September 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of St Johns Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of St Johns Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Underhill Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Underhill Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 306947.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 217 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1896 and 1901.

  1. (former) Mount Prospect Laboratory Designated landmark
    750 feet
  2. Public School No. 9 Annex Designated landmark
    820 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Grand Army Plaza Library.

  1. Brooklyn Public Library Gates Decorative panels by Thomas Hudson Jones, 1941
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 2 libraries
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    570 feet
  2. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · listed historic place
    1,000 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    500 feet
  2. Mount Prospect Park
    670 feet
  3. James Forten Playground
    790 feet
Show all 6
  1. Mt Prospect Park Playground
    1,150 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    1,170 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    730 feet
  2. Central Library Listed historic place
    1,000 feet
  3. Central Library Learning Center Library · listed historic place
    1,000 feet
Show all 5
  1. Prospect Heights (Boundary Expansion) Listed historic place
    1,080 feet
  2. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Duryea Presbyterian Church Landmark
    290 feet
  2. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    570 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along St Johns Place or Underhill Avenue.

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