Nostrand Avenue & Sullivan Place

Nostrand Avenue and Sullivan Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,847 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. Marc And Jason's Playground is 530 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about two minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 30 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
530 feet · 2 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
Nostrand Av/Montgomery St · B44
Within a walk
20 places
7 religious buildings, 5 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Sullivan Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 530 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    530 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
    1,310 feet
    2 5
  2. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Montgomery St, 290 feet away, for the B44.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Montgomery St B44
    290 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Nostrand Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

  • 36 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    1,030 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,847 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 86th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 2,373 more were issued.

Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

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
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,000 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 1925 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 20 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

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

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday noon to 4pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 8am to 7pm on Nostrand Avenue (east side).

West side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

North side of Sullivan Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Sullivan Place

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 330971.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 51 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1908 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 police station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell School
    910 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ Services Preschool
    930 feet
  3. Beth Rivkah High School
    930 feet
Show all 9
  1. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
    960 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care and Nursery 11 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  3. P.S. 161 the Crown School
    1,140 feet
  4. Success Academy Charter School - Crown Heights School
    1,140 feet
  5. Daisley Institute Trade or language school
    1,160 feet
  6. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dodger Playground
    360 feet
  2. Marc And Jason's Playground
    530 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
    290 feet

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Nostrand Avenue or Sullivan Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, 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 and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.