West Drive & East Drive

West Drive and East Drive (north) meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park is under 10 feet away, and Endale Arch in Prospect Park is 90 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about six minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them park features, and one place to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
780 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
18 places
7 park features, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West Drive & East Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    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. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3
  2. 7 Av B, Q
    0.5 miles
    B Q

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 Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza, 780 feet away, for the B41.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza B41 · Shelter
    780 feet
    B41
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on East Drive and West Drive.

  • 44 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Plaza St East & Flatbush Ave 63 docks in all
    830 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 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 October 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Park

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1898 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 290 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 45 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical. They were mostly built between 1892 and 1900.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    680 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. James S.T. Stranahan Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1891
    350 feet
  2. Four Eagles Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1901
    420 feet
  3. Brooklyn Public Library Gates Decorative panels by Thomas Hudson Jones, 1941
    540 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 park features
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 libraries
  • 2 monuments or memorials
  • 2 parks
  • 3 other places

This corner stands inside Prospect Park.

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  2. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · landmark · listed historic place
    1,010 feet
  3. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    surrounds this corner
  2. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    under 10 feet
  3. Endale Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    90 feet
Show all 10
  1. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    400 feet
  2. Meadowport Arch in Prospect Park Park feature
    410 feet
  3. Grand Army Plaza
    420 feet
  4. Flower Garden Pavilion in Prospect Park Park feature
    530 feet
  5. Garfield Tot Lot Playground
    950 feet
  6. Vale of Cashmere in Prospect Park Park feature
    980 feet
  7. Midwood in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    830 feet
  2. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    910 feet
  3. Central Library Landmark · listed historic place
    1,010 feet
Show all 4
  1. Central Library Learning Center Library · landmark · listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East Drive or West Drive.

Sources: 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 Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.