President Street & Rogers Avenue

President Street and Rogers Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field is 1,130 feet away. The nearest subway, President St-Medgar Evers College, is about three minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Rogers Avenue, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm.

Safety record
10 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
President St-Medgar Evers College
750 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Rogers Av/President St · B49
Within a walk
18 places
12 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
President Street & Rogers Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is President St-Medgar Evers College, 750 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    750 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. Nostrand Av 3
    1,290 feet
    3
  2. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 S

Bus

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

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rogers Av/President St B49
    120 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Crown St & Rogers Ave 21 docks in all
    700 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2020

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
124 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 284 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and September 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of President Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of President Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Ella Baker / Charles Romain Child Development Center of Medgar Evers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet
  2. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    790 feet
  3. All My Children Day Care and Nursery 11 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
Show all 6
  1. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
    1,050 feet
  2. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany of Brooklyn NY School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,180 feet
  3. Epiphany Lutheran Elementary School
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    480 feet
  2. Philadelphia Sabbath Cathedral Listed historic place
    1,110 feet
  3. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field House of worship
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 13 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 President Street 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.