Brooklyn Avenue & Sterling Place

Brooklyn Avenue and Sterling Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Crown Heights North III Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St. Gregory the Great Rectory stands 90 feet away, and St Marks Church Episcopal is 1,270 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, five of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Brooklyn Av/Park Pl · B43
Within a walk
19 places
5 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Avenue & Sterling Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Park Pl, 230 feet away, for the B43.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Park Pl B43
    230 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Brooklyn Avenue and Sterling Place.

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Prospect Pl 25 docks in all
    700 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    700 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2026

About this corner

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

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1906 and 1938.

Since 2014 at least 48 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 7AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North III Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 363 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1903 and 1910.

  1. St. Gregory the Great Rectory Designated landmark
    90 feet
  2. St. Gregory the Great School Designated landmark
    260 feet
  3. NYC Dept. of Social Services Child Day Care Center Designated landmark
    510 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  2. Arista Preparatory School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    910 feet
  3. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Eastern Parkway School
    1,040 feet
Show all 6
  1. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    1,250 feet
  2. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,260 feet
  3. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    380 feet
  2. Brower Park Playground
    720 feet

Health care

  1. Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brower Park Library
    970 feet
  2. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    970 feet
  3. Eastern Parkway Listed historic place
    1,220 feet
Show all 4
  1. Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gregory the Great RC Church Landmark
    170 feet
  2. First Church of God in Christ House of worship
    1,040 feet
  3. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 230 Kingston Avenue Older adult center
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    660 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brooklyn 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.