Sullivan Place & Ludlam Place

Sullivan Place and Ludlam Place meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dodger Playground is 850 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about six minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
670 feet
Empire Blvd/Rogers Av · B43
Within a walk
11 places
5 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sullivan Place & Ludlam Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5
  2. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.5 miles
    B Q S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Empire Blvd/Rogers Av, 670 feet away, for the B43.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Empire Blvd/Rogers Av B43
    670 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 30 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rogers Ave & Sterling St 17 docks in all
    910 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 240 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four 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 September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
77 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1923 and 1928.

Since 2014 at least 24 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Village Green' zelkova and the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

East side of Ludlam Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Ludlam Place

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Sullivan Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 105 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1907 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Daisley Institute Trade or language school
    740 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care and Nursery 11 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet
  3. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    940 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Hollow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dodger Playground
    850 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. James E Davis Post Office
    1,130 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ludlam Place or Sullivan 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, 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.