St Johns Place & Rochester Avenue

St Johns Place and Rochester Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 57 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 146 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park is 780 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places, 19 of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
25 hurt
57 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Saint Johns Pl/Rochester Av · B45
Within a walk
28 places
19 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Johns Place & Rochester Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.3 miles
    3 4

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Good Morning and Good Night” (2004) by Hugo Consuegra at the Crown Hts-Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Johns Pl/Rochester Av, 130 feet away, for the B45.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Johns Pl/Rochester Av B45
    130 feet
    B45

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Johns Place.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & Rochester Ave 22 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 57 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 24 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 10 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016
  • Turn calming, May 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 146 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,695th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 102 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
115 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

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 1915 and 1924.

Since 2014 at least 62 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 46 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of St Johns Place

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-4PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • Bus layover only 1 sign MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7:30AM-8:30AM 4PM-9PM NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM

South side of St Johns Place

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING 8AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 320578 and 340103.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 19 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Bka of NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
  2. Brooklyn Kids Academy Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    950 feet
  3. Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy (Cbla) School
    960 feet
Show all 8
  1. Roots to Grow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    950 feet
  2. Explore Empower Charter School
    960 feet
  3. M.S. K394 School
    960 feet
  4. Mt Moriah Christian Academy School
    1,010 feet
  5. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    780 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca House of worship
    240 feet
  2. Trinity Cme Methodist Church House of worship
    1,240 feet
  3. St Mathew RC Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 13 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 Rochester Avenue or St Johns Place.

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.