Vanderbilt Avenue & Plaza Street East

Vanderbilt Avenue and Plaza Street East meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Skene Monument is 230 feet away, and Prospect Park is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about a minute on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
390 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Vanderbilt Av/Plaza St East · B69
Within a walk
18 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Vanderbilt Avenue & Plaza Street East Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 390 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    390 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, 70 feet away, for the B69.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Plaza Street East and Vanderbilt Avenue.

  • 79 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Plaza St West & Flatbush Ave 49 docks in all
    500 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.6 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
    0.5 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 nine crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2018
  • Turn calming, March 2025

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)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
123 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to six travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,500 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 1905 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 143 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the black cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

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

East side of Plaza Street East

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Plaza Street East

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM

South side of Plaza Street East

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

West side of Plaza Street East

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 331146 and 337868.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 208 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1888 and 1901.

  1. Public School No. 9 Annex Designated landmark
    320 feet
  2. Montauk Club Designated landmark
    580 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Dr. Alexander J.C. Skene Bust by John Massey Rhind, 1905
    230 feet
  2. John F. Kennedy Memorial Bust by Neil Estern, 1965
    420 feet
  3. Bailey Fountain Fountain by Eugene F. Savage, 1932
    550 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 monuments or memorials
  • 2 parks
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 340 School
    360 feet
  2. Montessori Day School of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    820 feet
  3. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    890 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    80 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    1,160 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. Prospect Heights Community Farm Garden
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    230 feet
  2. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    310 feet
  3. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    810 feet
Show all 6
  1. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    920 feet
  2. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    970 feet
  3. Prospect Heights (Boundary Expansion) Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    890 feet
  2. Duryea Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    660 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    690 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Plaza Street East or Vanderbilt Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.