Rockaway Avenue & Somers Street

Rockaway Avenue and Somers Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Phoenix Community Garden is 80 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about a minute on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1907 and 1925, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
15 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
130 feet · 1 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Rockaway Av/Fulton St · B60
Within a walk
14 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Avenue & Somers Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 130 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av C
    130 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Chauncey St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z
  2. Broadway Junction A, C, J, L, Z
    0.4 miles
    A C J L Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Av/Fulton St, 40 feet away, for the B60.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av/Fulton St B60
    40 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Somers St & Rockaway Ave 20 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2111 Monaco Place Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2024
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
37 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ocean Hill
Elevation
98 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1907 and 1925.

Since 2014 at least 26 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 86 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2021 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rockaway Avenue

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

West side of Rockaway Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Somers Street

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

South side of Somers Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Romanesque Revival. They were built between 1888 and 1895.

  1. Public School 73 Designated landmark
    620 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Environmental Exploration School (Bees) School
    730 feet
  2. Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School
    730 feet
  3. Imagine Me Leadership Charter School
    1,030 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S./ I.S. 155 Nicholas Herkimer School
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Phoenix Community Garden
    80 feet
  2. 45 Somers Street Community Garden
    180 feet
  3. Hull Street Community Garden (NYRP) Garden
    470 feet
Show all 5
  1. Fish Playground
    900 feet
  2. Callahan-Kelly Playground
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Hope Pentecostal Church House of worship
    410 feet
  2. St Matthew FBH Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,300 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Rockaway Avenue or Somers Street.

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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.