Brooklyn Avenue & Lincoln Place

Brooklyn Avenue and Lincoln Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Crown Heights North III Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St. Gregory the Great School stands 470 feet away, and Chabad Lubavitch World HQ is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
1,090 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
Brooklyn Av/Saint Johns Pl · B43
Within a walk
26 places
14 religious buildings, 5 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Avenue & Lincoln Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 1,090 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av 3
    1,090 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3
  2. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Saint Johns Pl, 200 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Saint Johns Pl B43
    200 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Brooklyn Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Brooklyn Ave 21 docks in all
    450 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported nine crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
89 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1906 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

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

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Lincoln Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Lincoln Place

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North III Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 298 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1905 and 1909.

  1. St. Gregory the Great School Designated landmark
    470 feet
  2. St. Gregory the Great Rectory Designated landmark
    580 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 museum
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Eastern Parkway School
    410 feet
  2. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    620 feet
  3. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    630 feet
Show all 8
  1. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    630 feet
  2. Arista Prep School
    850 feet
  3. St Mark's Day School
    1,200 feet
  4. Chabad Girls Academy School
    1,270 feet
  5. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    1,010 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Listed historic place
    590 feet
  2. Jewish Children's Museum
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gregory the Great RC Church Landmark
    500 feet
  2. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    640 feet
  3. Chabad Lubavitch World HQ House of worship
    1,110 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 230 Kingston Avenue Older adult center
    1,130 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    640 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Lincoln Place.

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