5th Avenue & Sterling Place

The three-way junction of 5th Avenue and Sterling Place is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Church of God stands 620 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about six minutes on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 62 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
5 Av/Saint Johns Pl · B63
Within a walk
18 places
7 religious buildings, 5 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & Sterling Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bergen St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St 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. Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 B D N Q R
  2. Union St R
    0.4 miles
    R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/Saint Johns Pl, 150 feet away, for the B63.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/Saint Johns Pl B63
    150 feet
    B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on 5th Avenue.

  • 49 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & 5 Ave 27 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1,210 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
41 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 49 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2023 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on 5th Avenue (west side).

East side of 5th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Sterling Place

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 335136 and 336821.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 141 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1874 and 1880.

  1. St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church School Designated landmark
    570 feet
  2. Church of God Designated landmark
    620 feet
  3. St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church Designated landmark
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Ms. Lam Montessori School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    120 feet
  2. M.S. K266 - Park Place Community Middle School
    690 feet
  3. P.S. K077 School
    690 feet
Show all 8
  1. Bpos of Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    800 feet
  2. P.S. 133 William A. Butler School
    830 feet
  3. Le Paradis des Anges Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet
  4. Kids-Centric - Helen Owen Carey CDC School
    1,230 feet
  5. P.S. 282 Park Slope School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lincoln-Berkeley Community Garden
    810 feet
  2. Park Slope Playground
    870 feet
  3. Warren-St.Marks Community Garden
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Augustine RC Church House of worship
    900 feet
  2. Sixth Ave Baptist Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Bank branches

  1. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    20 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.4 miles
  2. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 62 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or Sterling Place.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.