Washington Avenue & Eastern Parkway

Washington Avenue and Eastern Parkway meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 74 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. In 2025, 5,016 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The bust “Dr. Ronald McNair” is 420 feet away. The nearest subway, Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, is about two minutes on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
48 hurt
74 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum
480 feet · 2 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
460 feet
Classon Av/Eastern Pkwy · B48
Within a walk
23 places
6 day care or pre-K sites, 6 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Washington Avenue & Eastern Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, 480 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    480 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. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    1,070 feet
    2 3 4 5 S
  2. Park Pl S
    0.4 miles
    S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “New York City Architectural Artifacts from the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum” (2004) by MTA Arts & Design Collaborative at the Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Classon Av/Eastern Pkwy, 460 feet away, for the B48.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Classon Av/Eastern Pkwy B48 · Shelter
    460 feet
    B48
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Washington Avenue.

  • 59 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Washington Ave 31 docks in all
    180 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five 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 74 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 48 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, October 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 5,016 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 158th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 2,610 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71 and 77 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
152 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to five travel lanes

Homes

About 2,100 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 1927.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 94 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Siberian elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and March 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Washington Avenue (west side).

North side of Eastern Parkway

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Eastern Parkway

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY SATURDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 13 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Washington Avenue

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 309212 and 333697.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1893 and 1915.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Dr. Ronald McNair Park.

  1. Dr. Ronald McNair Bust by Ogundipe Fayomi, 1994
    420 feet
  2. Joseph A. Guider Urn by Romeo Frassanito, 1930
    580 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 6 schools
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Chai Tots Preschool of Prospect Heights Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    520 feet
  2. Sunflower Playhouse Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    540 feet
  3. St Francis de Sales-Deaf-Brooklyn School
    730 feet
Show all 12
  1. Bumblebees -R-Us Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    830 feet
  2. Classon Avenue Pre-K
    830 feet
  3. Wurzelkinder Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    970 feet
  4. Clara Barton High School
    1,080 feet
  5. Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment School
    1,170 feet
  6. Brooklyn School for Music & Theatre School
    1,170 feet
  7. International High School at Prospect Heights School
    1,170 feet
  8. The High School for Global Citizenship School
    1,170 feet
  9. Prospect Kids Academy #2 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dr. Ronald McNair Park
    150 feet
  2. Mount Prospect Park
    840 feet
  3. Mt Prospect Park Playground
    970 feet
Show all 5
  1. Union Street Garden and Community Development Garden
    1,040 feet
  2. Stroud Playground
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Museum Landmark · listed historic place
    360 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 280/Ladder 132 Fire station
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and five food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Eastern Parkway or Washington Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.