Sterling Place & Vanderbilt Avenue

Sterling Place and Vanderbilt Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Public School No. 9 Annex stands 160 feet away, and Union Temple Brooklyn is 1,090 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about two minutes on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 43 places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
590 feet · 2 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Vanderbilt Av/Sterling Pl · B69
Within a walk
22 places
6 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sterling Place & Vanderbilt Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 590 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    590 feet
    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. 7 Av B, Q
    1,140 feet
    B Q
  2. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.5 miles
    2 3

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, 170 feet away, for the B69.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 74 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Park Pl & Vanderbilt Ave 21 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
120 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1937.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Sterling Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Sterling Place

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

East side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 306636 and 311175.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 295 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1885 and 1899.

  1. Public School No. 9 Annex Designated landmark
    160 feet
  2. Montauk Club Designated landmark
    720 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Grand Army Plaza.

  1. Dr. Alexander J.C. Skene Bust by John Massey Rhind, 1905
    420 feet
  2. John F. Kennedy Memorial Bust by Neil Estern, 1965
    630 feet
  3. Bailey Fountain Fountain by Eugene F. Savage, 1932
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 monuments or memorials
  • 2 gardens
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 340 School
    160 feet
  2. Montessori Day School of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    620 feet
  3. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,090 feet
Show all 6
  1. Aozora Community Foundation Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet
  2. The Nook Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet
  3. ABR Prospect Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    220 feet
  2. Prospect Heights Community Farm Garden
    1,080 feet
  3. St. Mark's Avenue / Prospect Heights Community Garden
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. James Forten Playground
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    100 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    430 feet
  3. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    720 feet
Show all 6
  1. Prospect Heights (Boundary Expansion) Listed historic place
    920 feet
  2. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    1,020 feet
  3. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Duryea Presbyterian Church House of worship
    920 feet
  2. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    1,090 feet
  3. Grace United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    480 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 43 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Sterling Place or Vanderbilt Avenue.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.