Carroll Street & Rogers Avenue

Carroll Street and Rogers Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School is 720 feet away. The nearest subway, President St-Medgar Evers College, is about four minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Rogers Avenue, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm.

Safety record
13 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
President St-Medgar Evers College
1,070 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Rogers Av/Carroll St · B49
Within a walk
19 places
13 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Carroll Street & Rogers Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is President St-Medgar Evers College, 1,070 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    1,070 feet
    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. Nostrand Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3
  2. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rogers Av/Carroll St, 110 feet away, for the B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rogers Av/Carroll St B49
    110 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Rogers Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Crown St & Rogers Ave 21 docks in all
    370 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
113 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,800 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 between 1916 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 284 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green Vase' zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 44 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2015 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Carroll Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Carroll Street

  • Metered parking 6 signs 6 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-10PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 334608.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Ella Baker / Charles Romain Child Development Center of Medgar Evers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
  2. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    460 feet
  3. All My Children Day Care and Nursery 11 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    610 feet
Show all 5
  1. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
    720 feet
  2. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dodger Playground
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    800 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field House of worship
    930 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Carroll Street or Rogers 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.