Sterling Place & Rogers Avenue

Sterling Place and Rogers Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. German School Brooklyn is 130 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about six minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, 16 of them religious buildings, and 39 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Rogers Avenue, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
14 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
Saint Johns Pl/Rogers Av · B45
Within a walk
27 places
16 religious buildings, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sterling Place & Rogers Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Park Pl S
    0.3 miles
    S
  2. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Johns Pl/Rogers Av, 340 feet away, for the B45.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Johns Pl/Rogers Av B45
    340 feet
    B45

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

Rogers Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Sterling Place.

  • 33 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & Bedford Ave 25 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 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 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
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
109 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 103 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and May 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

North side of Sterling Place

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Sterling Place

  • Ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Gothic, and built in 1920.

  1. Studebaker Building Designated landmark
    290 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 16 religious buildings
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. German School Brooklyn School
    130 feet
  2. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    390 feet
  3. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany of Brooklyn NY School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    850 feet
Show all 10
  1. Epiphany Lutheran Elementary School
    890 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Prospect Heights School
    920 feet
  3. P.S. 138 Brooklyn Pre-K
    920 feet
  4. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence School
    920 feet
  5. Park Place Day Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    930 feet
  6. Park Place DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet
  7. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    970 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    1,170 feet
  2. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Rogers 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.