Bedford Avenue & Lincoln Road

Bedford Avenue and Lincoln Road meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush is 130 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about six minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
35 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Bedford Av/Lefferts Av · B49
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Lincoln Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.3 miles
    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 …

Also within a walk

  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

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 Bedford Av/Lefferts Av, 190 feet away, for the B49.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Lefferts Av B49
    190 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue and Lincoln Road.

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Maple St 23 docks in all
    310 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
    1,280 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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.

  • 35 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2019
  • Turn calming, February 2020

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
66 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Lincoln Road

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 15 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Lincoln Road

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 492 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1900 and 1910.

  1. The Sunday School and Chapel of Grace Reformed Church Designated landmark
    210 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 garden
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Blue Petals Utmost Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet
  2. City-Pro Group, Inc. - Bedford Ave School
    1,240 feet
  3. The Hollow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maple Street Community Garden
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    520 feet
  2. Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush Landmark
    130 feet
  2. Bethany Gospel Chapel House of worship
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and three food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Lincoln Road.

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