Sutter Avenue & Osborn Street

Sutter Avenue and Osborn Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Hughes Apartments development. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dr. Green Playground is 60 feet away, and the Gregory Jocko Jackson School of Sports, Art, and Technology is 290 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 30 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
Mother Gaston Blvd/Sutter Av · B14
Within a walk
30 places
11 religious buildings, 7 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sutter Avenue & Osborn Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Rockaway Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

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 Mother Gaston Blvd/Sutter Av, 600 feet away, for the B14.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mother Gaston Blvd/Sutter Av B14
    600 feet
    B14

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Christopher Ave & Sutter Ave 18 docks in all
    840 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
41 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,400 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 in 1954.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Hughes Apartments development.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2018 and September 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Osborn Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Osborn Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Sutter Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Gregory Jocko Jackson School of Sports, Art, and Technology School
    290 feet
  2. Uncommon Brownsville South CMS School
    290 feet
  3. Rize & Shine Childcare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    690 feet
Show all 9
  1. Beanstalk Child Care Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,110 feet
  2. Mott Hall Bridges Academy School
    1,130 feet
  3. P.S./I.S. 323 School
    1,130 feet
  4. P.S. 150 Christopher School
    1,210 feet
  5. P.S. 327 Dr. Rose B. English School
    1,290 feet
  6. Sid Miller Academy School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dr. Green Playground
    60 feet
  2. ISO Student Farm Garden
    600 feet
  3. Carter G. Woodson Children's Park
    680 feet
Show all 4
  1. Chester Playground
    1,270 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Watkins Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    870 feet
  2. Osborn Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Hebron Church House of worship
    790 feet
  2. Charity Baptist Church House of worship
    1,080 feet
  3. Risen Christ Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Langston Hughes Community Center
    360 feet
  2. Older adult center at 301 Sutter Avenue Older adult center
    360 feet
  3. Brownsville Post Office
    1,000 feet
Show all 4
  1. Older adult center at 528 Mother Gaston Boulevard Older adult center
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,060 feet
  2. Family Dollar Store
    1,270 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 15 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Osborn Street 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.