Bedford Avenue & Sterling Street

Bedford Avenue and Sterling Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Washington Empire Plaza is 1,230 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about seven minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Bedford Av/Empire Blvd · B49
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 2 trade or language schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Sterling Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.4 miles
    B Q S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Empire Blvd, 100 feet away, for the B49.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Empire Blvd B49
    100 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling St & Bedford Ave 19 docks in all
    60 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. 240 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    1,200 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
63 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and September 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Sterling Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Sterling Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 15 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 204 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1905 and 1910.

  1. The Sunday School and Chapel of Grace Reformed Church Designated landmark
    370 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 pedestrian plaza

Schools and child care

  1. Daisley Institute Trade or language school
    1,150 feet
  2. The Hollow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,150 feet
  3. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    1,180 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush Landmark
    470 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    800 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Sterling Street.

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