Prospect Place & Rogers Avenue

Prospect Place and Rogers Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,556 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence is 580 feet away. The nearest subway, Park Pl, is about five minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and 31 places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
Prospect 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 five 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 A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C
  2. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

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, 230 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Prospect Pl & Nostrand Ave 22 docks in all
    730 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2016

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,556 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 532nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 672 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
95 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 1905 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 36 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

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

North side of Prospect Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-6PM ALL DAYS

South side of Prospect Place

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

East side of Rogers Avenue

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

West side of Rogers Avenue

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

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
    660 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Grant Square Gore.

  1. Ulysses Simpson Grant Statue by William Ordway Partridge, 1896
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    500 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Prospect Heights School
    580 feet
  3. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence School
    580 feet
Show all 8
  1. P.S. 138 Brooklyn Pre-K
    580 feet
  2. German School Brooklyn School
    780 feet
  3. Park Place Day Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    930 feet
  4. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  5. Park Place DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    320 feet
  2. Grant Gore Park
    700 feet
  3. Walt L. Shamel Community Garden
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    610 feet
  2. Washington Temple Church God House of worship
    780 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 19 Rogers Avenue Older adult center
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 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 Prospect Place or Rogers Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.