Rogers Avenue & Sullivan Place

Rogers Avenue and Sullivan Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dodger Playground is 490 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 27 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Rogers Avenue, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm.

Safety record
4 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
1,310 feet · 5 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Empire Blvd/Rogers Av · B43
Within a walk
16 places
8 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rogers Avenue & Sullivan Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 1,310 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    1,310 feet
    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
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Empire Blvd/Rogers Av, 310 feet away, for the B43.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Empire Blvd/Rogers Av B43
    310 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rogers Ave & Sterling St 17 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 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 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2016

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
78 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 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 1924 and 1928.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2015 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

North side of Sullivan Place

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

South side of Sullivan Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 119 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1908 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 post office
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Daisley Institute Trade or language school
    380 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care and Nursery 11 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    420 feet
  3. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    570 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Hollow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    800 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dodger Playground
    490 feet
  2. Marc And Jason's Playground
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. James E Davis Post Office
    760 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,050 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Rogers Avenue or Sullivan Place.

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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.