Washington Avenue & St Johns Place

Washington Avenue and St Johns Place meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dr. Ronald McNair Park is 870 feet away. The nearest subway, Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, is about four minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them day care or pre-K sites, and 31 places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum
1,130 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Saint Johns Pl/Washington Av · B45
Within a walk
18 places
7 day care or pre-K sites, 5 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Washington Avenue & St Johns Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, 1,130 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    1,130 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
    0.3 miles
    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 Saint Johns Pl/Washington Av, 180 feet away, for the B45.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Johns Pl/Washington Av B45
    180 feet
    B45

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Johns Place and Washington Avenue.

  • 109 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Johns Pl & Washington Ave 30 docks in all
    80 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
138 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 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 1912 and 1926.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 59 signs on these blocks
  • 18 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2020 and September 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 St Johns Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of St Johns Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

East side of Washington Avenue

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 306947, 313474 and 331754.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 48 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1898 and 1904.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 museum
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Sunflower Playhouse Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    190 feet
  2. Wurzelkinder Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    700 feet
  3. Prospect Kids Academy #2 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    790 feet
Show all 9
  1. Bumblebees -R-Us Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    840 feet
  2. Classon Avenue Pre-K
    940 feet
  3. Sunny Skies Prospect Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
  4. Chai Tots Preschool of Prospect Heights Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,030 feet
  5. Brooklyn Jesuit Prep School
    1,060 feet
  6. P.S. 316 Elijah Stroud School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Stroud Playground
    560 feet
  2. Dr. Ronald McNair Park
    870 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Museum Listed historic place
    940 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 280/Ladder 132 Fire station
    450 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,020 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along St Johns Place or Washington 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.