Sterling Place & Rochester Avenue

Sterling Place and Rochester Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. M.S. K394 is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat. About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1914 and 1924, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
2 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
Saint Johns Pl/Rochester Av · B45
Within a walk
25 places
14 religious buildings, 5 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sterling Place & Rochester Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.3 miles
    3 4

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Good Morning and Good Night” (2004) by Hugo Consuegra at the Crown Hts-Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Johns Pl/Rochester Av, 420 feet away, for the B45.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Johns Pl/Rochester Av B45
    420 feet
    B45

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & Rochester Ave 22 docks in all
    50 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
    0.4 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
109 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1914 and 1924.

Since 2014 at least 33 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

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

East side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy (Cbla) School
    630 feet
  2. Explore Empower Charter School
    630 feet
  3. M.S. K394 School
    630 feet
Show all 9
  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet
  2. P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods School
    1,180 feet
  3. The Brooklyn Green School
    1,180 feet
  4. Bka of NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet
  5. Brooklyn Kids Academy Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,280 feet
  6. Roots to Grow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    1,100 feet
  2. Woods Playground
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca House of worship
    560 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,300 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Rochester Avenue or Sterling Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.