Rogers Avenue & Crown Street

Rogers Avenue and Crown Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dodger Playground is 840 feet away. The nearest subway, President St-Medgar Evers College, is about five minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 23 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Rogers Avenue, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm.

Safety record
20 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
President St-Medgar Evers College
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Rogers Av/Montgomery St · B49
Within a walk
20 places
10 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rogers Avenue & Crown Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is President St-Medgar Evers College, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    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. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5
  2. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rogers Av/Montgomery St, 230 feet away, for the B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rogers Av/Montgomery St B49
    230 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Rogers Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

  • 37 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Crown St & Rogers Ave 21 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 20 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, November 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
103 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1922 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 308 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green Vase' zelkova and the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2018 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Crown Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Crown Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 playground
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    140 feet
  2. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
    1,050 feet
  3. Daisley Institute Trade or language school
    1,090 feet
Show all 8
  1. All My Children Day Care and Nursery 11 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    280 feet
  2. Ella Baker / Charles Romain Child Development Center of Medgar Evers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet
  3. Beth Rivkah High School
    1,120 feet
  4. Crown Multi-Educ Services Preschool
    1,120 feet
  5. Medgar Evers College
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dodger Playground
    840 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field House of worship
    1,020 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. James E Davis Post Office
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Crown Street 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.