Rogers Avenue & Rutland Road

Rogers Avenue and Rutland Road meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Lenore G. Briggs Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bethany Gospel Chapel is 960 feet away. The nearest subway, Winthrop St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
Rogers Avenue & Rutland Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rogers Av/Fenimore St, 170 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rogers Ave & Lincoln Rd 23 docks in all
    770 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
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 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
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

This corner is also named Lenore G. Briggs Way, a co-naming enacted on June 24, 2017 (Local Law 110 of 2017).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1941.

Since 2014 at least 33 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Lenore G. Briggs Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM

North side of Rutland Road

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

South side of Rutland Road

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 273 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1899 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Collective Play Ground Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    140 feet
  2. Lefferts Gardens Montessori School
    410 feet
  3. The Hollow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet
Show all 5
  1. Mary Bobb Learning Academy School
    1,270 feet
  2. My Little Sprouts Child Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maple Street Community Garden
    750 feet
  2. Winthrop Playground
    980 feet
  3. Lincoln Road Garden
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Boundary Increase Listed historic place
    770 feet
  2. Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    910 feet
  3. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Fenimore St United Methodist Church House of worship
    330 feet
  2. Bethany Gospel Chapel House of worship
    960 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 249/Ladder 113 Fire station
    410 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 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 Rogers Avenue or Rutland Road.

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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.