Sterling Place & Underhill Avenue

Sterling Place and Underhill Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Prospect Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Duryea Presbyterian Church is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about five 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 religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
Vanderbilt Av/Sterling Pl · B69
Within a walk
13 places
3 religious buildings, 2 listed historic places and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sterling Place & Underhill Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    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. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3
  2. 7 Av B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q

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, 940 feet away, for the B69.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Underhill Ave & Lincoln Pl 27 docks in all
    510 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. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 three crashes 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 November 2025.

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
129 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,200 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 1904 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

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

North side of Sterling Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Sterling Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Underhill Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Underhill Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 305571 and 306949.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Prospect Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 317 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1895 and 1901.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 monuments or memorials
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    900 feet
  2. I.S. 340 School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. James Forten Playground
    460 feet
  2. Grand Army Plaza
    730 feet
  3. Mount Prospect Park
    1,000 feet
Show all 4
  1. Stroud Playground
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Heights (Boundary Expansion) Listed historic place
    750 feet
  2. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    910 feet
  3. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    1,060 feet
Show all 4
  1. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Duryea Presbyterian Church Landmark
    100 feet
  2. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,310 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 17 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Sterling Place or Underhill Avenue.

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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.