New York Avenue & Sterling Street

New York Avenue and Sterling Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell is 380 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about three minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
770 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
New York Av/Empire BL · B44, B96
Within a walk
19 places
7 religious buildings, 6 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & Sterling Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 770 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    770 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. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Empire BL, 270 feet away, for the B44 and B96.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Empire BL B44, B96 · Shelter
    270 feet
    B44 B96
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …
  2. B96 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Empire Blvd & New York Ave 23 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
    480 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 nine crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

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
57 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 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 1927 and 1967.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Bloodgood' London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and March 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Sterling Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Sterling Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Crown Multi-Educ SVCS Leffert School
    150 feet
  2. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell School
    380 feet
  3. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    480 feet
Show all 8
  1. Beth Rivkah School
    920 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start School
    920 feet
  3. St Francis of Assisi Catholic Aca School
    990 feet
  4. Chabad Girls Academy High School
    1,150 feet
  5. Children's Paradise Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marc And Jason's Playground
    350 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights Library
    870 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth David David Gershon Shul House of worship
    480 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. James E Davis Post Office
    1,220 feet

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    540 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 New York Avenue or Sterling Street.

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