Dean Street & Rochester Avenue

Dean Street and Rochester Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Kingsborough development. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Brooklyn Green School is 590 feet away, and Calvary Fellowship AME Church is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Utica Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 37 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Utica Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Dean St/Rochester Av · B15, B65
Within a walk
37 places
15 religious buildings, 6 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dean 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 seven 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 Dean St/Rochester Av, 60 feet away, for the B15 and B65.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dean St/Rochester Av B15, B65
    60 feet
    B15 B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pacific St & Rochester Ave 19 docks in all
    310 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
    770 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 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2016
  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
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
63 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 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 26 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2021 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dean Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Dean Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

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.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 4 gardens
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods School
    590 feet
  2. The Brooklyn Green School
    590 feet
  3. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    610 feet
Show all 9
  1. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
  2. NY Center for Child Dev Atlantic Ave School
    1,150 feet
  3. Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy (Cbla) School
    1,230 feet
  4. Explore Empower Charter School
    1,230 feet
  5. M.S. K394 School
    1,230 feet
  6. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kingsborough Houses Bergen Playground
    460 feet
  2. Kingsborough Houses Pacific Playground
    460 feet
  3. Woods Playground
    670 feet
Show all 7
  1. Garden of Plenty Garden
    770 feet
  2. A Better Community Garden
    1,010 feet
  3. Seasons of Vision Garden
    1,130 feet
  4. F.A.R.R. Community Garden
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Houses of worship

  1. Berean Baptist Church House of worship
    350 feet
  2. Calvary Fellowship AME Church House of worship
    940 feet
  3. International Christian Center House of worship
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kingsborough Community Center
    760 feet
  2. Older adult center at 447 Kingsborough 4 Walk Older adult center
    1,290 feet
  3. Older adult center at Kingsborough Extension Older adult center
    1,310 feet

Fire and police

  1. 77th Precinct Police station
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dean 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.