Sutter Avenue & Essex Street

Sutter Avenue and Essex Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Ronald P. Kloepfer Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. It is 170 feet to the 75th Precinct. The nearest subway, Shepherd Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Shepherd Av
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Sutter Av/Essex St · B14
Within a walk
20 places
12 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sutter Avenue & Essex Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Shepherd Av, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Shepherd Av C
    1,160 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. New Lots Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sutter Av/Essex St, 110 feet away, for the B14.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av/Essex St B14 · Shelter
    110 feet
    B14
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sutter Ave & Jerome St 14 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1249 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Ronald P. Kloepfer Place, a co-naming enacted on December 21, 2004 (Local Law 63 of 2004).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 2 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Ronald P. Kloepfer Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Essex Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Essex Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Sutter Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Sutter Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Joyful Tots Daycare Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    740 feet
  2. Urban Strategies Day Care Center #1 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    810 feet
  3. Little Birds Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
Show all 5
  1. East New York Elementary School of Excellence School
    1,160 feet
  2. East New York Middle School of Excellence School
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linwood Street Garden
    280 feet
  2. Good Shepherds Community Group Garden
    650 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethelite Institutional Baptist Church House of worship
    510 feet

Fire and police

  1. 75th Precinct Police station
    170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Essex Street or Sutter Avenue.

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