Broadway & Linden Street

Broadway and Linden Street meet at a three-way junction in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Archbishop Roy E. Brown Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Good Life Garden is 600 feet away. The nearest subway, Gates Av, is about a minute on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Gates Av
110 feet · 1 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Broadway/Quincy St · Q24, T430, T433
Within a walk
29 places
11 religious buildings, 6 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & Linden Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Gates Av, 110 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Gates Av J, Z
    110 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Kosciuszko St J
    0.3 miles
    J
  2. Halsey St J
    0.5 miles
    J

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Dream Train” (2002) by Chris Wade Robinson at the Gates Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Quincy St, 30 feet away, for the Q24, T430 and T433.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Quincy St Q24, T430, T433
    30 feet
    Q24 T430 T433

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q24 …
  2. T430 …
  3. T433 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Grove St & Broadway 31 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,050 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
37 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
81 and 83 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Archbishop Roy E. Brown Way, a co-naming enacted on January 19, 2020 (Local Law 26 of 2020).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 58 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Archbishop Roy E. Brown Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2015 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Broadway (west side).

East side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM

North side of Linden Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Linden Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 340825 and 341263.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 35 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1888 and 1896.

  1. Ridgewood Masonic Temple Designated landmark
    640 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 gardens
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School
    700 feet
  2. Adaptive Solutions Multi Services Preschool
    720 feet
  3. Good Samaritan Fulton Day Care Center-Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    720 feet
Show all 11
  1. The Joy of Learning Day Care Center Preschool
    720 feet
  2. Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology School
    850 feet
  3. Hospital Clinic Home Center Instructional Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  4. Kids-Centric, Inc Ace Integration School
    900 feet
  5. P.S. 309 the George E. Wibecan Preparatory Academy School
    1,150 feet
  6. Uncommon Excellence Girls Charter School NYC School
    1,150 feet
  7. Yeshiva D'Nitra School
    1,190 feet
  8. Early Life Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Good Life Garden
    600 feet
  2. The People's Garden
    1,000 feet
  3. Concerned Citizens of Grove Street Community Garden
    1,010 feet
Show all 5
  1. Umoja Garden
    1,180 feet
  2. New Madison Harvest Community Garden
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Calvary & St Cyprians Church House of worship
    990 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1175 Gates Avenue Older adult center
    1,170 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 37/Engine 222 Fire station
    640 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    100 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    100 feet
  3. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    760 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    680 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    330 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    270 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Broadway or Linden Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.