West Drive & Prospect Park Driveway

West Drive and Prospect Park Driveway (north-east) meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Litchfield Villa in Prospect Park is under 10 feet away, and Middle Long Meadow in Prospect Park is 430 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Prospect Park West/9 St, is 0.4 miles away for the B61, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them park features, and one place to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
1.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.4 miles
Prospect Park West/9 St · B61
Within a walk
11 places
6 park features, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West Drive & Prospect Park Driveway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Prospect Park West/9 St, 0.4 miles away, for the B61.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Park West/9 St B61
    0.4 miles
    B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on West Drive.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 St & Prospect Park West 31 docks in all
    770 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 378 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1.6 miles
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2024

About this corner

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

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 150 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 1909 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 350 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical. They were mostly built between 1908 and 1909.

  1. Grace Hill, Litchfield House, Litchfield Villa Designated landmark
    420 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Prospect Park.

  1. Panthers Statue by Alexander Phimister Proctor, 1898
    650 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 park features
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park

This corner stands inside Prospect Park.

Schools and child care

  1. Chai Tots Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  2. Poly Prep Lower School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    surrounds this corner
  2. Litchfield Villa in Prospect Park Park feature · listed historic place
    under 10 feet
  3. Third Street Playground
    160 feet
Show all 9
  1. Middle Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    430 feet
  2. The Bandshell in Prospect Park Park feature
    920 feet
  3. Ambergill in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,020 feet
  4. Ravine in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,180 feet
  5. Tennis House in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,190 feet
  6. Garfield Tot Lot Playground
    1,210 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The nearest corners on foot, with walking distances:

See every intersection along Prospect Park Driveway or West Drive.

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