Sutter Avenue & Strauss Street

Sutter Avenue and Strauss Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 325 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Sunkissed Garden is 820 feet away, and Brownsville Post Office is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, Saratoga Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, seven of them gardens, and three places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Saratoga Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Saratoga Av/Sutter Av · B7
Within a walk
19 places
7 gardens, 7 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sutter Avenue & Strauss Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Saratoga 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. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    0.4 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, 350 feet away, for the B7.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Thomas S. Boyland St & Sutter Ave 16 docks in all
    810 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
    0.5 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
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 325 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,423rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 188 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
27 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,400 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 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

East side of Strauss Street

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

West side of Strauss Street

  • 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

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 gardens
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 392 School
    880 feet
  2. P.S. 156 Waverly School
    880 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Isabahlia Community Garden
    190 feet
  2. Jes Good Rewards Childeren's Garden
    560 feet
  3. Amboy Street Garden
    770 feet
Show all 8
  1. Sunkissed Garden
    820 feet
  2. Fantasy Garden
    1,010 feet
  3. Fred McLeod Community Garden
    1,070 feet
  4. Brownsville Community Farm (James McKeather) Garden
    1,120 feet
  5. Betsy Head Park
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Chevra Torah Anshei Radishkowitz Listed historic place
    710 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries House of worship
    1,200 feet
  2. Bethany Gospel Chapel House of worship
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Brownsville Post Office
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and four 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 Strauss Street 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.