President Street & Rochester Avenue

President Street and Rochester Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn, at the edge of Lincoln Terrace Park. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Lincoln Terrace Park / Arthur S. Somers Playground is 80 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av · B14
Within a walk
17 places
9 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
President Street & Rochester Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.3 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 Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av, 680 feet away, for the B14.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av B14
    680 feet
    B14

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Carroll St & Rochester Ave 21 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, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 8 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 June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
41
Police precinct
71 and 77 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South); the corner is on the edge of the Lincoln Terrace Park area
Elevation
82 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,600 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 1922 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 67 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 166 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

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

North side of President Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Back-in parking only 6 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of President Street

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Ohr Menachem School
    420 feet
  2. Seneca Village Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  3. Highlights Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    890 feet
  2. P.S. 398 Walter Weaver School
    1,240 feet
  3. P.S. 770 New American Academy School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    70 feet
  2. Lincoln Terrace Park / Arthur S. Somers Playground
    80 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Cme Methodist Church House of worship
    1,070 feet
  2. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca House of worship
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    890 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and 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 President Street or Rochester Avenue.

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