Sterling Place & Franklin Avenue

Sterling Place and Franklin Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Jesuit Prep is 880 feet away. The nearest subway, Park Pl, is about three minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 52 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Park Pl
710 feet · 3 min on foot · S
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Franklin Av/Sterling Pl · B48
Within a walk
15 places
10 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sterling Place & Franklin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Park Pl, 710 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Pl S
    710 feet
    S

Next trains at this station

Franklin Av
1 line
  1. S …
Prospect Park
1 line
  1. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    910 feet
    2 3 4 5 S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Units of the Free” (1999) by Isha Shabaka at the Park Pl station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Franklin Av/Sterling Pl, 40 feet away, for the B48.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Franklin Av/Sterling Pl B48
    40 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Franklin Avenue and Sterling Place.

  • 43 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Park Pl & Franklin Ave 20 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 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, July 2016

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)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
115 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1906 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 48 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Sterling Place

  • 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 and historic districts

Thirteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Queen Anne, and built between 1889 and 1890.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Jesuit Prep School
    880 feet
  2. Interfaith Med Ctr School of Nursing College
    1,100 feet
  3. German School Brooklyn School
    1,150 feet
Show all 5
  1. Prospect Kids Academy #2 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,160 feet
  2. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kol Israel Congregation Listed historic place
    380 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 52 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Franklin Avenue or Sterling 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.