Norman Avenue & Sutton Street

Norman Avenue and Sutton Street meet at a four-way crossing in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Msgr. McGolrick Park is 1,260 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Nassau Av/Kingsland Av, is 1,010 feet away for the B48, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

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Norman Avenue & Sutton Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nassau Av/Kingsland Av, 1,010 feet away, for the B48.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nassau Av/Kingsland Av B48
    1,010 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. N Henry St & Norman Ave 29 docks in all
    840 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Varick Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 278 Greenpoint Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 33 Norman Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 53-26 Van Dam Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11222
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
94
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Greenpoint
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Norman Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Sutton Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Sutton Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Msgr. McGolrick Park
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and 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:

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.