Rogers Avenue & Montgomery Street

Rogers Avenue and Montgomery Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 5,392 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. Dodger Playground is 510 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Rogers Av/Montgomery St · B49
Within a walk
16 places
9 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rogers Avenue & Montgomery 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
  • 3 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. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5
  2. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rogers Av/Montgomery St, 110 feet away, for the B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rogers Av/Montgomery St B49
    110 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

  • 26 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
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 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.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 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, November 2016

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 5,392 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 37th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 1,244 more were issued.

Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

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
93 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 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 1925 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 57 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Montgomery Street

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

South side of Montgomery Street

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

East side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 5 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

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. All My Children Day Care and Nursery 11 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    50 feet
  2. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    200 feet
  3. Daisley Institute Trade or language school
    760 feet
Show all 5
  1. Ella Baker / Charles Romain Child Development Center of Medgar Evers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  2. The Hollow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dodger Playground
    510 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Ebbets Field House of worship
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. James E Davis Post Office
    910 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,260 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Montgomery Street or Rogers Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.