Sterling Place & Butler Place

Sterling Place and Butler Place meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Public School No. 9 Annex stands 450 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, three of them listed historic places, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
Vanderbilt Av/Sterling Pl · B69
Within a walk
13 places
3 listed historic places, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sterling Place & Butler Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    1,160 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 7 Av B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q
  2. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wings for the IRT: The Irresistible Romance of Travel” (1995) by Jane Greengold at the Grand Army Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Vanderbilt Av/Sterling Pl, 680 feet away, for the B69.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Vanderbilt Av/Sterling Pl B69
    680 feet
    B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Sterling Place.

  • 52 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 9 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Underhill Ave & Lincoln Pl 27 docks in all
    770 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  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 one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
125 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

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 1901 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Butler Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Butler Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 303 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1895 and 1901.

  1. Public School No. 9 Annex Designated landmark
    450 feet
  2. (former) Mount Prospect Laboratory Designated landmark
    560 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Grand Army Plaza.

  1. Dr. Alexander J.C. Skene Bust by John Massey Rhind, 1905
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 monuments or memorials
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 340 School
    730 feet
  2. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,080 feet
  3. Montessori Day School of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    470 feet
  2. James Forten Playground
    720 feet
  3. Mount Prospect Park
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    650 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    1,000 feet
  3. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    1,000 feet
Show all 5
  1. Prospect Heights (Boundary Expansion) Listed historic place
    1,010 feet
  2. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Duryea Presbyterian Church Landmark
    350 feet
  2. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and eight food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Butler Place or Sterling Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.