St Johns Place & Rogers Avenue

St Johns Place and Rogers Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. First Baptist Church Crown Heights is 840 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about five minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and 37 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Rogers Avenue, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
14 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Saint Johns Pl/Rogers Av · B45
Within a walk
23 places
14 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Johns Place & Rogers Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.3 miles
    2 3 4 5 S
  2. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Johns Pl/Rogers Av, 40 feet away, for the B45.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Johns Pl/Rogers Av B45
    40 feet
    B45

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Johns Place.

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & Bedford Ave 25 docks in all
    650 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 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 January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2014
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
120 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 153 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of St Johns Place

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Gothic, and built in 1920.

  1. Studebaker Building Designated landmark
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. German School Brooklyn School
    310 feet
  2. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany of Brooklyn NY School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    520 feet
  3. Epiphany Lutheran Elementary School
    560 feet
Show all 8
  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    720 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Prospect Heights School
    1,240 feet
  3. P.S. 138 Brooklyn Pre-K
    1,240 feet
  4. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence School
    1,240 feet
  5. Park Place Day Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    930 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Rogers 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.