Sterling Place & Hampton Place

Sterling Place and Hampton Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Crown Heights North III Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brower Park is 680 feet away, and St Gregory the Great RC Church is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Kingston Av/Saint Johns Pl · B43
Within a walk
26 places
10 religious buildings, 6 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sterling Place & Hampton Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kingston Av/Saint Johns Pl, 530 feet away, for the B43.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av/Saint Johns Pl B43 · Shelter
    530 feet
    B43
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kingston Ave & Park Pl 21 docks in all
    670 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35 and 36 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
91 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1904 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 23 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hampton Place

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Hampton Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North III Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 371 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1899 and 1907.

  1. Congregation Shaari Zedek Designated landmark
    290 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Arista Preparatory School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    440 feet
  2. Yeled Vyalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    980 feet
  3. Arista Prep School
    1,020 feet
Show all 10
  1. Edwards L. Cleaveland Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  2. Kipp Always Mentally Prepared Charter School
    1,150 feet
  3. Kipp Amp Elementary Charter School
    1,150 feet
  4. The School of Integrated Learning School
    1,150 feet
  5. Creative Learning Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,180 feet
  6. P.S. 289 George V. Brower School
    1,180 feet
  7. Lighthouse Early Learning Center School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    680 feet
  2. Brower Park Playground
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Church of God in Christ House of worship
    340 feet
  2. St Gregory the Great RC Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 230 Kingston Avenue Older adult center
    500 feet
  2. Older adult center at 196 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    1,270 feet
  3. St Johns Place Post Office
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,080 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and eight food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hampton Place 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, NYCHA, 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.