Union Street & Rogers Avenue

Union Street and Rogers Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. First Baptist Church Crown Heights is 170 feet away, and German School Brooklyn is 1,280 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about four minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
970 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
Rogers Av/Eastern Pkwy · B49
Within a walk
17 places
10 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Street & Rogers Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 970 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av 3
    970 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    1,070 feet
    2 5
  2. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.3 miles
    2 3 4 5 S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rogers Av/Eastern Pkwy, 220 feet away, for the B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rogers Av/Eastern Pkwy B49 · Shelter
    220 feet
    B49
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Rogers Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Union St & Bedford Ave 24 docks in all
    590 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
135 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 307 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
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rogers Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

North side of Union Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Union Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 311722 and 339258.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany of Brooklyn NY School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    850 feet
  2. Epiphany Lutheran Elementary School
    890 feet
  3. Ella Baker / Charles Romain Child Development Center of Medgar Evers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
Show all 7
  1. Bambi Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care and Nursery 11 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet
  3. Macademy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet
  4. German School Brooklyn School
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    170 feet
  2. Philadelphia Sabbath Cathedral Listed historic place
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 11 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Rogers Avenue or Union Street.

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