Bergen Street & Rochester Avenue

Bergen Street and Rochester Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Kingsborough development. Between 2021 and 2025, 30 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Berean Baptist Church is 310 feet away, and Brooklyn Center for Rehabilitation and Residential Health Care is 1,120 feet away. The nearest subway, Utica Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 31 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
30 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Utica Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Bergen St/Rochester Av · B15, B65
Within a walk
31 places
12 religious buildings, 5 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bergen Street & Rochester Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Utica Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Children's Cathedral” (1996) by Jimmy James Greene at the Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bergen St/Rochester Av, 40 feet away, for the B15 and B65.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St/Rochester Av B15, B65 · Shelter
    40 feet
    B15 B65
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bergen Street and Rochester Avenue.

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Marks Ave & Rochester Ave 20 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 52 Rochester Avenue Gas station
    1,050 feet
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 30 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
70 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 in 1950.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Kingsborough development.

Since 2014 at least 18 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 47 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bergen Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-7PM

South side of Bergen Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 4 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Vernacular. They were built in 1830.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Weeksville Heritage Center.

  1. Sugar in My Bowl II Sculpture by Chakaia Booker, 2012
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods School
    310 feet
  2. The Brooklyn Green School
    310 feet
  3. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    320 feet
Show all 7
  1. Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy (Cbla) School
    950 feet
  2. Explore Empower Charter School
    950 feet
  3. M.S. K394 School
    950 feet
  4. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kingsborough Houses Bergen Playground
    170 feet
  2. Woods Playground
    380 feet
  3. Kingsborough Houses Pacific Playground
    570 feet
Show all 5
  1. Garden of Plenty Garden
    1,050 feet
  2. A Better Community Garden
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Center for Rehabilitation and Residential Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Weeksville Heritage Center Historic site · listed historic place
    520 feet
  2. Hunterfly Road Historic District Listed historic place
    590 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Berean Baptist Church House of worship
    310 feet
  2. Calvary Fellowship AME Church House of worship
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kingsborough Community Center
    480 feet
  2. Older adult center at 447 Kingsborough 4 Walk Older adult center
    1,000 feet
  3. Older adult center at Kingsborough Extension Older adult center
    1,020 feet

Fire and police

  1. 77th Precinct Police station
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bergen Street or Rochester Avenue.

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