Union Street & Grand Army Plaza Oval

Union Street and Grand Army Plaza Oval meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The relief “The Army: Genius of Patriotism Urging American Soldiers On To Victory” is 290 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 16 public places, four of them park features, and four places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
960 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
16 places
4 park features, 3 monuments or memorials and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Street & Grand Army Plaza Oval Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 960 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
    960 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. 7 Av B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q
  2. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

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, 600 feet away, for the B41.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 39 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Grand Army Plaza & Plaza St West 39 docks in all
    100 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 99 Prospect Park West Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
139 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are 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 1892 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 96 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 214 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1886 and 1899.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    320 feet
  2. Montauk Club Designated landmark
    760 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. General Gouverneur Kemble Warren Statue by Henry Baerer, 1896
    140 feet
  2. The Army: Genius of Patriotism Urging American Soldiers On To Victory Relief by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1900
    290 feet
  3. Abraham Lincoln Relief by Thomas Eakins and William Rudolph O'Donovan, 1901
    310 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

This corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza.

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    130 feet
  2. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · listed historic place
    840 feet
  3. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    880 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    surrounds this corner
  2. Prospect Park
    250 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    470 feet
Show all 7
  1. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    820 feet
  2. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    840 feet
  3. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    890 feet
  4. Mount Prospect Park
    1,170 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    140 feet
  2. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    740 feet
  3. Central Library Listed historic place
    840 feet
Show all 5
  1. Central Library Learning Center Library · listed historic place
    840 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    930 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    880 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food 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 four places to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Grand Army Plaza Oval or Union Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, 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.