Wellhouse Drive & East Lake Drive

Wellhouse Drive and East Lake Drive meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Boat House in Prospect Park is 310 feet away, and the bust “Mozart” is 500 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about three minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, ten of them park features, and six places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Wellhouse Drive.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
840 feet · 3 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
Ocean Av/Lincoln Rd · B16
Within a walk
15 places
10 park features, 2 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Wellhouse Drive & East Lake Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 840 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    840 feet
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4” (1994) by Susan Tunick at the Prospect Park station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Lincoln Rd, 680 feet away, for the B16.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Lincoln Rd B16
    680 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Wellhouse Drive.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lincoln Rd & Ocean Ave 23 docks in all
    660 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Park
Elevation
89 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 600 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 1925 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 250 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the black cherry.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1888 and 1904.

  1. Music Pagoda Designated landmark
    340 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Prospect Park.

  1. Mozart Bust by Augustus Max Johannes Mueller, 1897
    500 feet
  2. Ludwig Van Beethoven Bust by Henry Baerer, 1894
    500 feet
  3. Thomas Moore Bust by John G. Draddy, 1879
    550 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

This corner stands inside Prospect Park.

Schools and child care

  1. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    surrounds this corner
  2. Breeze Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    90 feet
  3. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    280 feet
Show all 13
  1. Boat House in Prospect Park Park feature · landmark · listed historic place
    310 feet
  2. Concert Grove in Prospect Park Park feature
    320 feet
  3. Lullwater in Prospect Park Park feature
    360 feet
  4. Flower Garden in Prospect Park Park feature
    470 feet
  5. Lincoln Road Playground
    490 feet
  6. Imagination Playground
    790 feet
  7. Midwood in Prospect Park Park feature
    860 feet
  8. Music Pagoda in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,120 feet
  9. Peninsula in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,230 feet
  10. Binnen Water in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. John Hus Moravian Church House of worship
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East Lake Drive or Wellhouse Drive.

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