Sutter Avenue & Alabama Avenue

Sutter Avenue and Alabama Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Long Island Baptist Houses development. Between 2021 and 2025, 27 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Police Service Area #2 is 150 feet away, and Brooklyn Gardens Elementary School is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
27 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av
1,080 feet · 4 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Sutter Av/Alabama Av · B14
Within a walk
13 places
6 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sutter Avenue & Alabama Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av, 1,080 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av L
    1,080 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Pennsylvania Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3
  2. Liberty Av C
    0.5 miles
    C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Habitat for the Yellow Bird” (2007) by Takayo Noda at the Sutter Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sutter Av/Alabama Av, 120 feet away, for the B14.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av/Alabama Av B14 · Shelter
    120 feet
    B14
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sutter Ave & Sheffield Ave 12 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 27 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 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 1971 and 2007.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Long Island Baptist Houses development.

Since 2014 at least 346 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2015 and May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Alabama Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Alabama Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Sutter Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Sutter Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Hyde Leadership Charter School - Brooklyn School
    530 feet
  2. P.S. 328 Phyllis Wheatley School
    530 feet
  3. Modern Organization and Human Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brooklyn Gardens Elementary School
    1,300 feet
  2. School of the Future Brooklyn School
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Unity Plaza Community Center
    780 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #2 Police station
    150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and 17 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Alabama Avenue or Sutter Avenue.

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