West Drive & Prospect Park West at 3rd Street

West Drive, Prospect Park West and 3rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Jose A. Perez Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The statue “Panthers” is 80 feet away, and Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park is 490 feet away. The nearest subway, 7 Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places and one place to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
7 Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
7 Av/3 St · B67, B69
Within a walk
10 places
4 park features, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West Drive & Prospect Park West at 3rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 7 Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 7 Av F, G
    0.4 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av/3 St, 0.3 miles away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/3 St B67, B69
    0.3 miles
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 3rd Street, Prospect Park West and West Drive.

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1.6 miles
  2. 99 Prospect Park West Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    600 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 7 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2022
  • Turn calming, March 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
150 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jose A. Perez Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1903 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 179 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jose A. Perez Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 72 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2014 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 3rd Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of 3rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Prospect Park West

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 21 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 21 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Prospect Park West

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 284 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1903 and 1909.

  1. Grace Hill, Litchfield House, Litchfield Villa Designated landmark
    450 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
    80 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 park features
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Litchfield Villa in Prospect Park Park feature · listed historic place
    30 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    60 feet
  3. Third Street Playground
    480 feet
Show all 7
  1. Upper Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    490 feet
  2. Garfield Tot Lot Playground
    860 feet
  3. The Bandshell in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,150 feet
  4. Middle Long Meadow in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of the Virgin Mary House of worship
    1,000 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Street, Prospect Park West or West Drive.

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 Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.