Franklin Avenue & Sullivan Place

Franklin Avenue and Sullivan Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Central Office, Bureau of Fire Communications stands 340 feet away, built in 1913. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about four minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Sullivan Pl/Washington Av · B48
Within a walk
10 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Franklin Avenue & Sullivan Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    1,160 feet
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.5 miles
    2 3 4 5 S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4” (1994) by Susan Tunick at the Prospect Park station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sullivan Pl/Washington Av, 180 feet away, for the B48.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sullivan Pl/Washington Av B48
    180 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Franklin Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. McKeever Pl & Sullivan Pl 19 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2022

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
79 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1960.

Since 2014 at least 16 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Franklin Avenue

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Sullivan Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Sullivan Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Florentine Early Renaissance, and built in 1913.

  1. Brooklyn Central Office, Bureau of Fire Communications Designated landmark
    340 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ebbets Field Middle School
    460 feet
  2. P.S. 375 Jackie Robinson School
    460 feet
  3. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    700 feet
Show all 4
  1. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jackie Robinson Playground
    750 feet
  2. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    850 feet
  3. Prospect Park
    890 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    430 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    640 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Franklin Avenue or Sullivan 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.