Park Place & Rogers Avenue

Park Place and Rogers Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Studebaker Building stands 390 feet away, and Ulysses S Grant Statue is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, Park Pl, is about six minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 33 public places, 19 of them religious buildings, and 39 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Rogers Avenue, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
16 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Park Pl
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · S
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Rogers Av/Park Pl · B49
Within a walk
33 places
19 religious buildings, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Place & Rogers Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Park Pl, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Pl S
    0.3 miles
    S

Next trains at this station

Franklin Av
1 line
  1. S …
Prospect Park
1 line
  1. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3
  2. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Units of the Free” (1999) by Isha Shabaka at the Park Pl station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rogers Av/Park Pl, 120 feet away, for the B49.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rogers Av/Park Pl B49
    120 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & Bedford Ave 25 docks in all
    650 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
104 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1906 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 44 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
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Park Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

South side of Park Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Rogers Avenue

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

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Queen Anne. They were mostly built between 1889 and 1890.

  1. Studebaker Building Designated landmark
    390 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 public places.

  • 19 religious buildings
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. German School Brooklyn School
    460 feet
  2. P.S. 138 Brooklyn Pre-K
    590 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Prospect Heights School
    590 feet
Show all 10
  1. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence School
    590 feet
  2. Park Place Day Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    610 feet
  3. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    720 feet
  4. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
  5. Park Place DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  6. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany of Brooklyn NY School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,180 feet
  7. Epiphany Lutheran Elementary School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    650 feet
  2. Grant Gore Park
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    930 feet
  2. Washington Temple Church God House of worship
    1,100 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 19 Rogers Avenue Older adult center
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,270 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  3. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Park Place or Rogers Avenue.

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.