St Marks Avenue & Rochester Avenue

St Marks Avenue and Rochester Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Brooklyn Green School is 200 feet away, and P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods is 200 feet away. The nearest subway, Utica Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Utica Av
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
160 feet
Saint Marks Av/Rochester Av · B15, B65
Within a walk
27 places
12 religious buildings, 5 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Marks Avenue & Rochester Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Utica Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Utica Av A, C
    0.5 miles
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Children's Cathedral” (1996) by Jimmy James Greene at the Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Marks Av/Rochester Av, 160 feet away, for the B15 and B65.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Marks Av/Rochester Av B15, B65
    160 feet
    B15 B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Rochester Avenue and St Marks Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Marks Ave & Rochester Ave 20 docks in all
    40 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. 52 Rochester Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1,200 feet
  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 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 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 March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 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
80 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 42 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2021 and September 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of St Marks Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO COMMUNITY BOARD MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Vernacular. They were built in 1830.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Weeksville Heritage Center.

  1. Sugar in My Bowl II Sculpture by Chakaia Booker, 2012
    670 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods School
    200 feet
  2. The Brooklyn Green School
    200 feet
  3. Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy (Cbla) School
    620 feet
Show all 7
  1. Explore Empower Charter School
    620 feet
  2. M.S. K394 School
    620 feet
  3. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet
  4. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    650 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Woods Playground
    210 feet
  2. Kingsborough Houses Bergen Playground
    500 feet
  3. Kingsborough Houses Pacific Playground
    890 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Weeksville Heritage Center Historic site · listed historic place
    650 feet
  2. Hunterfly Road Historic District Listed historic place
    680 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Berean Baptist Church House of worship
    510 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kingsborough Community Center
    800 feet

Fire and police

  1. 77th Precinct Police station
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Rochester Avenue or St Marks Avenue.

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