Union Street & Rochester Avenue

Union Street and Rochester Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
1,240 feet · 5 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av · B14
Within a walk
18 places
11 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Street & Rochester Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 1,240 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    1,240 feet
    3 4

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …

Also within a walk

  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    0.5 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Good Morning and Good Night” (2004) by Hugo Consuegra at the Crown Hts-Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av, 390 feet away, for the B14.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av B14
    390 feet
    B14

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Rochester Ave 24 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1412 Eastern Parkway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
41
Police precinct
71 and 77 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
94 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 between 1915 and 1928.

Since 2014 at least 57 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 189 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2015 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Union Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of Union Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 326850.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Ohr Menachem School
    520 feet
  2. Mt Moriah Christian Academy School
    1,040 feet
  3. Seneca Village Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet
Show all 5
  1. Highlights Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,180 feet
  2. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    40 feet
  2. Lincoln Terrace Park / Arthur S. Somers Playground
    380 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Cme Methodist Church House of worship
    770 feet
  2. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca House of worship
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,180 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Rochester Avenue or Union Street.

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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.