Rogers Avenue & Maple Street

Rogers Avenue and Maple Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Maple Street Community Garden is 230 feet away, and Lefferts Gardens Montessori is 930 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Rogers Av/Midwood St · B49
Within a walk
14 places
4 religious buildings, 3 listed historic places and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rogers Avenue & Maple Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sterling St 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. Winthrop St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5
  2. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.5 miles
    B Q S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rogers Av/Midwood St, 310 feet away, for the B49.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rogers Av/Midwood St B49
    310 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Maple Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rogers Ave & Lincoln Rd 23 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 240 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    1,120 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
60 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 17 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Maple Street

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

South side of Maple Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

East side of Rogers Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AVO FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 422 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1905 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 fire station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Collective Play Ground Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    390 feet
  2. The Hollow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    610 feet
  3. Lefferts Gardens Montessori School
    930 feet
Show all 4
  1. Daisley Institute Trade or language school
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maple Street Community Garden
    230 feet
  2. Lincoln Road Garden
    520 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    380 feet
  2. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  3. Lefferts Manor Historic District Boundary Increase Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Fenimore St United Methodist Church House of worship
    850 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 249/Ladder 113 Fire station
    240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

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