Sutter Avenue & Rockaway Avenue

Sutter Avenue and Rockaway Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 36 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 169 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. ISO Student Farm is 80 feet away, and Jes Good Rewards Childeren's Garden is 1,070 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 39 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
24 hurt
36 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Rockaway Av/Sutter Av · B60
Within a walk
39 places
15 religious buildings, 8 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sutter Avenue & Rockaway Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Sutter Av L
    0.5 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Paroles Vagabondes/Wisdom Along the Way” (2017) by Béatrice Lebreton at the Rockaway Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Av/Sutter Av, 110 feet away, for the B60.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av/Sutter Av B60 · Shelter
    110 feet
    B60
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rockaway Ave & Blake Ave 16 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, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 345 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    1,050 feet
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 36 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 24 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2018
  • Turn calming, September 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 169 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,665th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 93 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
39 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.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 49 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2019 and November 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rockaway Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Rockaway Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Farmers market 1 sign FARMERS MARKET ONLY JULY 1 - OCT 31 FRIDAY SATURDAY 8AM-5PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-7PM

North side of Sutter Avenue

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

South side of Sutter Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 8 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 gardens
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Rize & Shine Childcare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    160 feet
  2. Mott Hall Bridges Academy School
    610 feet
  3. P.S./I.S. 323 School
    610 feet
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  1. P.S. 327 Dr. Rose B. English School
    760 feet
  2. Sid Miller Academy School
    760 feet
  3. The Gregory Jocko Jackson School of Sports, Art, and Technology School
    820 feet
  4. Uncommon Brownsville South CMS School
    820 feet
  5. Beanstalk Child Care Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,070 feet
  6. Frederick Douglass Academy VII High School
    1,110 feet
  7. Legacy Leadership High School
    1,110 feet
  8. Brooklyn Sky Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. ISO Student Farm Garden
    80 feet
  2. Dr. Green Playground
    590 feet
  3. Chester Playground
    750 feet
Show all 7
  1. P.S. 125 Playground
    840 feet
  2. Jes Good Rewards Childeren's Garden
    1,070 feet
  3. Betsy Head Park
    1,140 feet
  4. Carter G. Woodson Children's Park
    1,210 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Osborn Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    910 feet
  2. Watkins Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Chevra Torah Anshei Radishkowitz Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Hebron Church House of worship
    320 feet
  2. Risen Christ Lutheran Church House of worship
    680 feet
  3. Bethany Gospel Chapel House of worship
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. Charity Baptist Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Langston Hughes Community Center
    480 feet
  2. Older adult center at 301 Sutter Avenue Older adult center
    480 feet
  3. Brownsville Post Office
    480 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    890 feet
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Rockaway Avenue or Sutter Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.