Rogers Avenue & Cortelyou Road

Rogers Avenue and Cortelyou Road meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Erasmus, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Pentecostal Church of God Bibleway is 960 feet away. The nearest subway, Beverly Rd, is about four minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Rogers Avenue, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
8 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverly Rd
960 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Rogers Av/Clarendon Rd · B49
Within a walk
16 places
12 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rogers Avenue & Cortelyou Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beverly Rd, 960 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beverly Rd 2, 5
    960 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. Newkirk Av-Little Haiti 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rogers Av/Clarendon Rd, 350 feet away, for the B49.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rogers Av/Clarendon Rd B49
    350 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Beverley Rd 24 docks in all
    1,080 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1092 Rogers Avenue Gas station
    1,180 feet
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 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.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
40
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Erasmus
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1919 and 1941.

Since 2014 at least 42 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2019 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Four buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Renaissance Revival, and built between 1909 and 1912.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Big Dreams Child Care Center II Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    420 feet
  2. Brooklyn's Brightest Starz Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,000 feet
  3. Garden of Knowledge Day Care & Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rogers/Tilden/Veronica Place Garden
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Pentecostal Church of God Bibleway House of worship
    960 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witnesses Cortelyou Rd House of worship
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cortelyou Road 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.