Sutter Avenue & Linwood Street

Sutter Avenue and Linwood Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Detective Peter J. Figoski Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 43 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Linwood Street Garden is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Shepherd Av, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
43 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Shepherd Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Sutter Av/Linwood St · B14
Within a walk
23 places
15 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sutter Avenue & Linwood Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Shepherd Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Shepherd Av C
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sutter Av/Linwood St, 40 feet away, for the B14.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av/Linwood St B14
    40 feet
    B14

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sutter Ave & Jerome St 14 docks in all
    1,230 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1249 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.2 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 43 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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
29 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Detective Peter J. Figoski Way, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

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 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the littleleaf linden.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Detective Peter J. Figoski Way.

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 April 2017 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Linwood Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Linwood 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

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Joyful Tots Daycare Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    490 feet
  2. Little Birds Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
  3. Urban Strategies Day Care Center #1 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linwood Street Garden
    40 feet
  2. Good Shepherds Community Group Garden
    890 feet
  3. Jerome Gardens Garden
    1,100 feet
Show all 4
  1. Elton Street Community Garden
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethelite Institutional Baptist Church House of worship
    330 feet

Fire and police

  1. 75th Precinct Police station
    240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Linwood 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.