Rogers Avenue & Midwood Street

Rogers Avenue and Midwood 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, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Engine 249/Ladder 113 firehouse is 150 feet away, and Winthrop Playground is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Rogers Av/Midwood St · B49
Within a walk
15 places
5 religious buildings, 3 listed historic places and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rogers Avenue & Midwood Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.4 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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rogers Av/Midwood St, 50 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 240 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  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 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

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
59 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 1908 and 1938.

Since 2014 at least 21 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and July 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Midwood Street

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

South side of Midwood Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

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 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 334 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1901 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 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
    130 feet
  2. Lefferts Gardens Montessori School
    670 feet
  3. The Hollow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    880 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maple Street Community Garden
    490 feet
  2. Lincoln Road Garden
    770 feet
  3. Winthrop Playground
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    640 feet
  2. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    940 feet
  3. Lefferts Manor Historic District Boundary Increase Listed historic place
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Fenimore St United Methodist Church House of worship
    590 feet
  2. Bethany Gospel Chapel House of worship
    1,220 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 249/Ladder 113 Fire station
    150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Midwood 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.