Sutter Avenue & Saratoga Avenue

Sutter Avenue and Saratoga Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 673 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Isabahlia Community Garden is 140 feet away. The nearest subway, Saratoga Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and six places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
25 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Saratoga Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Saratoga Av/Sutter Av · B7
Within a walk
18 places
7 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sutter Avenue & Saratoga Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Saratoga 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-Rutland Rd 3
    0.3 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Chandelier” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Saratoga Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saratoga Av/Sutter Av, 100 feet away, for the B7.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saratoga Av/Sutter Av B7
    100 feet
    B7

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Saratoga Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sutter Ave & Grafton St 16 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 24 Dumont Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  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
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 24 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 673 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,004th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 450 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
28 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 32 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2020 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Saratoga Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-7PM

West side of Saratoga Avenue

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

North side of Sutter Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Sutter Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 4 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 392 School
    610 feet
  2. P.S. 156 Waverly School
    610 feet
  3. Brooklyn Ascend Charter School
    1,180 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brownsville Ascend Charter School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Isabahlia Community Garden
    140 feet
  2. Sunkissed Garden
    550 feet
  3. Fantasy Garden
    740 feet
Show all 6
  1. Jes Good Rewards Childeren's Garden
    830 feet
  2. Amboy Street Garden
    1,040 feet
  3. Zion Triangle
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Chevra Torah Anshei Radishkowitz Listed historic place
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Green Village Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and five 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 Saratoga Avenue or Sutter Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.