East New York-City Line

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Along the Queens border at the eastern edge of East New York lies City Line, bordered by Cypress Hills and by Ozone Park in Queens.

  • 1.13 square miles
  • 45,559 residents, 2020 Census
  • 184 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 12 bus routes

The name recalls its position in the old City of Brooklyn beside the Queens County line, before Brooklyn and part of Queens County merged into New York City in 1898. City Line Park, on Atlantic Avenue between Fountain and North Conduit Avenues, fills the former site of the Ridgewood Pumping Station, which sent reservoir water to most of fast-growing Brooklyn, on land the City of Brooklyn bought in 1886. Liberty Avenue serves as the neighborhood's main shopping street.

Sources: East New York, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); City Line Park History (NYC Parks); City Line Park (NYC Parks).

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East New York-City Line borders seven areas, and Conduit Boulevard holds more of its corners than any other street, 21 of 186.

Street map of East New York-City Line, Brooklyn, outlined among Howard Beach-Lindenwood, East New York-New Lots, Cypress Hills and East New York (North), with its two subway stations and Spring Creek Park.Ozone Park (North)Ozone ParkHoward Beach-LindenwoodSpring Creek-Starrett CityEast New York-New LotsCypress HillsEast New York (North)
  • East New York-City Line
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Grant Av lines A
  • Euclid Av lines A C accessible

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on 12 routes stop in or at the edge of East New York-City Line.

  • 2 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 11 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • B13
  • B14
  • B15
  • B20
  • B84
  • Q8
  • Q24
  • Q112
  • T340
  • T430
  • T434

Express bus route

  • BM5

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,628 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 8.8 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 12 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 36 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
24
Accessible pedestrian signals
19
Turn calming
3
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Safety Improvement Projects
3

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 41,391 school-zone speed camera tickets at 12 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Glenmore Avenue & Conduit Boulevard, 18,699

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 45,559 residents in East New York-City Line, about 40,300 per square mile.

  • 15,597 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,299 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,452 residential lots hold buildings from 1925 or earlier, and 63% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Cypress Hills and Pink developments lie wholly or partly within East New York-City Line.

Parks

Parkland
68.3 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Spring Creek Park (50.5 acres), City Line Park (6.1 acres) and Cypress Hills Playground (4.9 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,362 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, Japanese flowering cherry and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Conduit Boulevard, with 21 of the area's 186
Height above sea level
From 3 feet at 78th Street & Loring Avenue to 40 feet at Euclid Avenue & Weldon Street
Honorary street names
4 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists six schools and one library in East New York-City Line.

Public schools
4
Charter and private schools
2
Library
Cypress Hills Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works in East New York-City Line: Liberty Avenue War Memorial (1947) and Family Library Table (1995).

  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 580 major felonies at places in East New York-City Line.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in East New York-City Line

  • 674 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,441 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of East New York-City Line, the NYPD recorded another 86 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 14.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in East New York-City Line.

Map of East New York-City Line: 11 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in East New York-City Line, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of East New York-City Line, most about 1,250 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of East New York-City Line are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for East New York-City Line and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
75th
Major felonies recorded at places in East New York-City Line, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 225 major felonies at places in East New York-City Line, against 288 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.