Prospect Place & Rochester Avenue

Prospect Place and Rochester Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy (Cbla) is 300 feet away, and the 77th Precinct is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 31 public places, 16 of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
480 feet
Saint Marks Av/Rochester Av · B15, B65
Within a walk
31 places
16 religious buildings, 5 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Place & Rochester Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.5 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 Marks Av/Rochester Av, 480 feet away, for the B15 and B65.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Marks Av/Rochester Av B15, B65
    480 feet
    B15 B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Marks Ave & Rochester Ave 20 docks in all
    360 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
    0.3 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
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 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, November 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
91 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 45 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2014 and May 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Prospect Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Prospect Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Vernacular. They were built in 1830.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Weeksville Heritage Center.

  1. Sugar in My Bowl II Sculpture by Chakaia Booker, 2012
    790 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 public places.

  • 16 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy (Cbla) School
    300 feet
  2. Explore Empower Charter School
    300 feet
  3. M.S. K394 School
    300 feet
Show all 7
  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    310 feet
  2. P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods School
    520 feet
  3. The Brooklyn Green School
    520 feet
  4. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Woods Playground
    530 feet
  2. Kingsborough Houses Bergen Playground
    820 feet
  3. Kingsborough Houses Pacific Playground
    1,220 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Weeksville Heritage Center Historic site · listed historic place
    970 feet
  2. Hunterfly Road Historic District Listed historic place
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Berean Baptist Church House of worship
    830 feet
  2. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca House of worship
    1,210 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kingsborough Community Center
    1,130 feet

Fire and police

  1. 77th Precinct Police station
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Prospect 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.