Rockaway Avenue & Sumpter Street

Rockaway Avenue and Sumpter Street meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Environmental Exploration School (Bees) is 320 feet away, and 45 Somers Street Community Garden is 740 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
940 feet · 4 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Rockaway Av/Sumpter St · B60
Within a walk
21 places
9 religious buildings, 6 gardens and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Avenue & Sumpter Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av C
    940 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
    990 feet
    J Z
  2. Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St L
    0.5 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Av/Sumpter St, 100 feet away, for the B60.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av/Sumpter St B60
    100 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. MacDougal St & Rockaway Ave 20 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 1534 Bushwick Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2018

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
78 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 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 1926.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rockaway Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Rockaway Avenue

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

North side of Sumpter Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Sumpter Street

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

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
    180 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 6 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Environmental Exploration School (Bees) School
    320 feet
  2. Brooklyn Landmark Elementary School
    320 feet
  3. Superior Day Care Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hull Street Community Garden (NYRP) Garden
    480 feet
  2. Marion Hopkinson Playground
    620 feet
  3. 45 Somers Street Community Garden
    740 feet
Show all 8
  1. Phoenix Community Garden
    890 feet
  2. Thomas Boyland Park
    1,060 feet
  3. Moffat Street Community Garden
    1,140 feet
  4. Moffat Garden
    1,150 feet
  5. Betty's Community Garden at Hull Street Garden
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Hope Pentecostal Church House of worship
    1,220 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 233/Ladder 176 Fire station
    660 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Marketplace of Bushwick Supermarket
    1,140 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,030 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Rockaway Avenue or Sumpter 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.