Eastern Parkway & Rochester Avenue

Eastern Parkway and Rochester Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 124 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. In 2025, 5,615 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Trinity Cme Methodist Church is 590 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
129 hurt
124 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
970 feet · 4 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av · B14
Within a walk
22 places
15 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Eastern Parkway & Rochester Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 970 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    970 feet
    3 4

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …

Also within a walk

  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    0.4 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Good Morning and Good Night” (2004) by Hugo Consuegra at the Crown Hts-Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av, 100 feet away, for the B14.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av B14
    100 feet
    B14

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Rochester Ave 24 docks in all
    100 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. 1412 Eastern Parkway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 124 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 129 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 10 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2023
  • Turn calming, May 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 5,615 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 28th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 1,398 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

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

The streets

  • Up to five travel lanes

Homes

About 1,800 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 1914 and 1924.

Since 2014 at least 47 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 164 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 88 signs on these blocks
  • 17 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and August 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Eastern Parkway

  • Farmers market 3 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY JUNE 1 - NOV 30 WEDNESDAY 10AM-6PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • Taxis and for-hire vehicles 2 signs TAXI/FHV PICK-UP/DROP-OFF ONLY

South side of Eastern Parkway

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Mt Moriah Christian Academy School
    690 feet
  2. Congregation Ohr Menachem School
    880 feet
  3. Bka of NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brooklyn Kids Academy Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,250 feet
  2. Roots to Grow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    120 feet
  2. Lincoln Terrace Park / Arthur S. Somers Playground
    730 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca House of worship
    420 feet
  2. Trinity Cme Methodist Church House of worship
    590 feet
  3. St Mathew RC Church House of worship
    1,050 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and ten 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Eastern Parkway or Rochester Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.