Nostrand Avenue & Sterling Street

Nostrand Avenue and Sterling Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 31 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
80 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Nostrand Av/Empire Blvd · B44, B44 SBS
Within a walk
19 places
8 religious buildings, 3 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Sterling Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 80 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    80 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
  2. Winthrop St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Empire Blvd, 130 feet away, for the B44 and B44 SBS.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Empire Blvd B44, B44 SBS
    130 feet
    B44 B44 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …
  2. B44 SBS …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling St & Nostrand Ave 23 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    1,290 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    840 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2025

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
64 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 33 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM

West side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 2PM-7PM SATURDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8:30AM-2PM

North side of Sterling Street

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

South side of Sterling Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 304052 and 306154.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 117 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1905 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 garden
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell School
    750 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ SVCS Leffert School
    960 feet
  3. The Hollow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,030 feet
Show all 6
  1. St Francis of Assisi Catholic Aca School
    1,100 feet
  2. Daisley Institute Trade or language school
    1,220 feet
  3. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marc And Jason's Playground
    240 feet
  2. Dodger Playground
    930 feet
  3. Lincoln Road Garden
    1,050 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth David David Gershon Shul House of worship
    1,050 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. James E Davis Post Office
    420 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    360 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    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 31 places to eat and 18 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Nostrand Avenue or Sterling Street.

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.