Park Place & Rochester Avenue

Park Place and Rochester Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 35 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Explore Empower Charter School is 310 feet away, and Woods Playground is 860 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
35 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
740 feet
Saint Johns Pl/Rochester Av · B45
Within a walk
28 places
15 religious buildings, 7 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Place & Rochester Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.4 miles
    3 4

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Good Morning and Good Night” (2004) by Hugo Consuegra at the Crown Hts-Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Johns Pl/Rochester Av, 740 feet away, for the B45.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & Rochester Ave 22 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 52 Rochester Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 35 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
102 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 1910 and 1927.

Since 2014 at least 31 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Park Place

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Park Place

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

East side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 historic site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy (Cbla) School
    310 feet
  2. Explore Empower Charter School
    310 feet
  3. M.S. K394 School
    310 feet
Show all 9
  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    640 feet
  2. P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods School
    850 feet
  3. The Brooklyn Green School
    850 feet
  4. Uncommon Excellence Girls CMS School
    1,060 feet
  5. P.S. 191 Paul Robeson School
    1,130 feet
  6. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Woods Playground
    860 feet
  2. Kingsborough Houses Bergen Playground
    1,150 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Center for Rehabilitation and Residential Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Weeksville Heritage Center Historic site · listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca House of worship
    890 feet
  2. Berean Baptist Church House of worship
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Park Place or Rochester Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.