St Johns Place & Buffalo Avenue

St Johns Place and Buffalo Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 42 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St. John's Place Renaissance Garden is 600 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
25 hurt
42 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av-Rutland Rd
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Saint Johns Pl/Buffalo Av · B15
Within a walk
22 places
15 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Johns Place & Buffalo Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.4 miles
    3 4

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Ailanthus” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Sutter Av-Rutland Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Johns Pl/Buffalo Av, 120 feet away, for the B15.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Johns Pl/Buffalo Av B15 · Shelter
    120 feet
    B15
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Johns Place.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Buffalo Ave & St John's Pl 21 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1412 Eastern Parkway Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 42 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2023
  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
102 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,800 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 1915 and 1924.

Since 2014 at least 31 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2015 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon Excellence Girls CMS School
    940 feet
  2. P.S. 191 Paul Robeson School
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. John's Place Renaissance Garden
    600 feet
  2. Ralph-Lincoln Service Center Garden
    730 feet
  3. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    780 feet
Show all 4
  1. Sterling Community Group Garden
    1,190 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Center for Rehabilitation and Residential Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca House of worship
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 15 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Buffalo Avenue or St Johns 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.