Sterling Place & Buffalo Avenue

Sterling Place and Buffalo Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 27 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 191 Paul Robeson is 690 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, is about ten minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, 17 of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
27 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av-Rutland Rd
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Buffalo Av/Saint Johns Pl · B15, B45, B65
Within a walk
25 places
17 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sterling Place & Buffalo Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    0.5 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
    0.5 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 Buffalo Av/Saint Johns Pl, 190 feet away, for the B15, B45 and B65.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Buffalo Av/Saint Johns Pl B15, B45, B65
    190 feet
    B15 B45 B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. B45 …
  3. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Park Pl & Buffalo Ave 20 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, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1412 Eastern Parkway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1,030 feet
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 27 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

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
98 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1914 and 1926.

Since 2014 at least 82 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Autumn Blaze' Freeman maple and the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 7 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 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 11 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 25 public places.

  • 17 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 historic site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon Excellence Girls CMS School
    620 feet
  2. P.S. 191 Paul Robeson School
    690 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sterling Community Group Garden
    870 feet
  2. St. John's Place Renaissance Garden
    930 feet
  3. Ralph-Lincoln Service Center Garden
    1,060 feet
Show all 4
  1. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    1,100 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Weeksville Heritage Center Historic site · listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca House of worship
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  2. 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 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and 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 Sterling Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, 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.