Washington Avenue & Sterling Street

Washington Avenue and Sterling Street meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Ebbets Field Middle School is 1,060 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about three minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
860 feet · 3 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Washington Av/Empire Blvd · B43, B48
Within a walk
11 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 park features and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Washington Avenue & Sterling Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 860 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    860 feet
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4” (1994) by Susan Tunick at the Prospect Park station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Washington Av/Empire Blvd, 230 feet away, for the B43 and B48.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Washington Av/Empire Blvd B43, B48
    230 feet
    B43 B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …
  2. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Washington Ave & Empire Blvd 27 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    680 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2026
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
74 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 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 1925 and 1938.

Since 2014 at least 86 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Sterling Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Sterling Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Washington Avenue

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 24 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival. They were mostly built between 1909 and 1922.

  1. Brooklyn Central Office, Bureau of Fire Communications Designated landmark
    430 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 park features
  • 2 schools
  • 1 museum
  • 1 park
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    130 feet
  2. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    580 feet
  3. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
Show all 5
  1. Ebbets Field Middle School
    1,060 feet
  2. P.S. 375 Jackie Robinson School
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    740 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    780 feet
  3. Carousel in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Historic House Museum
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    610 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Sterling Street or Washington Avenue.

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