Sutter Avenue & New Jersey Avenue

Sutter Avenue and New Jersey Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St John Cantius RC Church is 650 feet away, and Duke Park is 1,020 feet away. The nearest subway, Pennsylvania Av, is about seven minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Pennsylvania Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Sutter Av/Vermont St · B14
Within a walk
20 places
8 religious buildings, 5 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sutter Avenue & New Jersey Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Pennsylvania Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Liberty Av C
    0.4 miles
    C
  2. Sutter Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Urban Garden Rail” (2017) by Saya Woolfalk at the Pennsylvania Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sutter Av/Vermont St, 170 feet away, for the B14.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av/Vermont St B14
    170 feet
    B14

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 11 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and May 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of New Jersey Avenue

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

West side of New Jersey Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Sutter Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Sutter Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 149 Danny Kaye School
    520 feet
  2. Achievement First Apollo Middle Charter School
    1,100 feet
  3. Achievement First East Brooklyn High School
    1,100 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bard High School Early College Brooklyn School
    1,100 feet
  2. J.H.S. 292 Margaret S. Douglas School
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grace Playground
    500 feet
  2. Artsy Bloom Community Garden
    560 feet
  3. New Jersey Avenue Community Garden
    710 feet
Show all 5
  1. Duke Park
    1,020 feet
  2. Duke Park Playground
    1,080 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 39 Ambulance station
    830 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Cantius RC Church House of worship
    650 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #2 Police station
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    420 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five 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 New Jersey 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.