Union Street & Plaza Street West

Union Street and Plaza Street West meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. General Warren Statue is 130 feet away, and Garfield Tot Lot is 1,280 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 17 public places, four of them park features, and four places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
950 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
17 places
4 park features, 3 monuments or memorials and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Street & Plaza Street West Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 950 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
    950 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, 560 feet away, for the B41.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Plaza Street West.

  • 43 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 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 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,600 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 113 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and August 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Plaza Street West

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Plaza Street West

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 198 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1886 and 1899.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    290 feet
  2. Montauk Club 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. General Gouverneur Kemble Warren Statue by Henry Baerer, 1896
    130 feet
  2. The Army: Genius of Patriotism Urging American Soldiers On To Victory Relief by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1900
    260 feet
  3. Abraham Lincoln Relief by Thomas Eakins and William Rudolph O'Donovan, 1901
    280 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen 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
  • 3 other places

This corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza.

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    surrounds this corner
  2. Prospect Park
    210 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    430 feet
Show all 8
  1. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    780 feet
  2. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    800 feet
  3. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    860 feet
  4. Mount Prospect Park
    1,130 feet
  5. Garfield Tot Lot Playground
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    130 feet
  2. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    700 feet
  3. Central Library Landmark · listed historic place
    800 feet
Show all 5
  1. Central Library Learning Center Library · landmark · listed historic place
    800 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    920 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    840 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Park Slope Food Coop 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.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Plaza Street West or Union Street.

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.