Nostrand Avenue & Sterling Place

Nostrand Avenue and Sterling Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Crown Heights North II Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 36 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. German School Brooklyn is 900 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 43 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
36 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
1,100 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
Saint Johns Pl/Nostrand Av · B45
Within a walk
21 places
12 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Sterling Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 1,100 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av 3
    1,100 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5
  2. Park Pl S
    0.5 miles
    S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Johns Pl/Nostrand Av, 340 feet away, for the B45.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Johns Pl/Nostrand Av B45
    340 feet
    B45

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

Nostrand Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Sterling Place.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Prospect Pl & Nostrand Ave 22 docks in all
    700 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 36 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35 and 36 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
92 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 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 1930.

Since 2014 at least 34 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 54 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • Truck loading only 4 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-NOON

West side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8:30AM-NOON 2PM-7PM SATURDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 5 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-2PM

North side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Sterling Place

  • Ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 311074 and 339245.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Crown Heights North II Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 275 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1894 and 1902.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Park Place DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    240 feet
  2. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    380 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Prospect Heights School
    840 feet
Show all 9
  1. Park Place Day Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    500 feet
  2. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence School
    840 feet
  3. P.S. 138 Brooklyn Pre-K
    840 feet
  4. German School Brooklyn School
    900 feet
  5. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany of Brooklyn NY School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,230 feet
  6. Epiphany Lutheran Elementary School
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Philadelphia Sabbath Cathedral Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    170 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    860 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 43 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

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