Sutter Avenue & Williams Avenue

Sutter Avenue and Williams Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Long Island Baptist Houses development. The corner is also named Rev. Wenceslao Martinez Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 328 Phyllis Wheatley is 540 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av
820 feet · 3 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Sutter Av/Williams Av · B14
Within a walk
11 places
6 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sutter Avenue & Williams Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av, 820 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Sutter Av L
    820 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Livonia Av L
    0.5 miles
    L

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 Sutter Av/Williams Av, 130 feet away, for the B14.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av/Williams Av B14 · Shelter
    130 feet
    B14
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Williams Avenue.

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 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, 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

This corner is also named Rev. Wenceslao Martinez Way, a co-naming enacted on February 5, 2015 (Local Law 15 of 2015).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Long Island Baptist Houses development.

Since 2014 at least 346 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the common hackberry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rev. Wenceslao Martinez Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Sutter Avenue

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

South side of Sutter Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Williams Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Williams Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Hyde Leadership Charter School - Brooklyn School
    540 feet
  2. P.S. 328 Phyllis Wheatley School
    540 feet
  3. Modern Organization and Human Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    760 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Unity Plaza Community Center
    810 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #2 Police station
    220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven 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 Sutter Avenue or Williams Avenue.

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