Vanderbilt Avenue & Grand Army Plaza

Vanderbilt Avenue and Grand Army Plaza 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. The fountain “Bailey Fountain” is 150 feet away, and I.S. 340 is 860 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about two minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, three of them monuments or memorials, and 14 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Grand Army Plaza, all day.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
530 feet · 2 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
400 feet
Vanderbilt Av/Plaza St East · B69
Within a walk
18 places
3 monuments or memorials, 3 parks and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Vanderbilt Avenue & Grand Army Plaza Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 530 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    530 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
    0.3 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 Vanderbilt Av/Plaza St East, 400 feet away, for the B69.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Vanderbilt Av/Plaza St East B69 · Shelter
    400 feet
    B69
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Grand Army Plaza carries a bus lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Plaza St East & Flatbush Ave 63 docks in all
    480 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. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 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 November 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
131 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,200 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 1920 and 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 290 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • 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 92 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1887 and 1899.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    390 feet
  2. Montauk Club Designated landmark
    620 feet
  3. Public School No. 9 Annex Designated landmark
    750 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
    150 feet
  2. John F. Kennedy Memorial Bust by Neil Estern, 1965
    180 feet
  3. Quadriga: the Triumphal Progress of Columbia Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1898
    380 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen 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
  • 5 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
    750 feet
  2. I.S. 340 School
    860 feet
  3. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · listed historic place
    890 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    surrounds this corner
  2. Prospect Park
    660 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    700 feet
Show all 6
  1. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,060 feet
  2. Mount Prospect Park
    1,070 feet
  3. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    350 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    390 feet
  3. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    810 feet
Show all 7
  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    700 feet
  2. Central Library Listed historic place
    890 feet
  3. Central Library Learning Center Library · listed historic place
    890 feet
  4. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    750 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,190 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and seven 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 Grand Army Plaza or Vanderbilt 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.