Brooklyn Avenue & Sterling Street

Brooklyn Avenue and Sterling Street meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,079 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Chabad Girls Academy High is 720 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av · B43
Within a walk
18 places
8 religious buildings, 7 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn 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 six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  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 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av, 360 feet away, for the B43.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av B43
    360 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Lefferts Ave 20 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1,190 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 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 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 September 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,079 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 720th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 533 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
61 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1926 and 1940.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and December 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

North side of Sterling Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Sterling Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Beth Rivkah School
    470 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start School
    470 feet
  3. Chabad Girls Academy High School
    720 feet
Show all 8
  1. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ SVCS Leffert School
    730 feet
  3. Bnos Chomesh Academy School
    870 feet
  4. Gan Academy School
    1,060 feet
  5. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell School
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marc And Jason's Playground
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth David David Gershon Shul House of worship
    1,160 feet
  2. Church of God of Prophecy House of worship
    1,310 feet

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    1,060 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    960 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Sterling Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.