Central Avenue & Linden Street

Central Avenue and Linden Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Barbaras RC Church is 720 feet away, and Achievement First North Brooklyn Preparatory Charter School is 1,290 feet away. The nearest subway, Gates Av, is about eight minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, six of them schools, and five places to eat.

Safety record
17 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Gates Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Gates Av/Central Av · B52
Within a walk
20 places
6 schools, 5 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Central Avenue & Linden Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Gates Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    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. Knickerbocker Av M
    0.4 miles
    M

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 Gates Av/Central Av, 350 feet away, for the B52.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Central Av B52
    350 feet
    B52

Next buses at this stop

  1. B52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Central Avenue.

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Menahan St & Central Ave 25 docks in all
    680 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1517 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 17 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, September 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
37
Police precinct
83
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 26 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 91 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Central Avenue

  • Doctor plates only 2 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Central Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Linden Street

  • Doctor plates only 2 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Linden Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Spanish Colonial Revival, and built between 1907 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bushwick United Housing Development Fund Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    310 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Bushwick School
    940 feet
  3. P.S. 075 Mayda Cortiella School
    1,110 feet
Show all 8
  1. Early Life Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet
  2. Achievement First North Brooklyn Preparatory Charter School
    1,290 feet
  3. P.S. 377 Alejandrina B. de Gautier School
    1,290 feet
  4. Bushwick Community High School
    1,300 feet
  5. J.H.S. 291 Roland Hayes School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Heckscher Playground
    140 feet
  2. Woodbine Street Block Association Garden
    990 feet
  3. Concerned Citizens of Grove Street Community Garden
    1,230 feet
Show all 4
  1. Hope Ballfield Park
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Barbaras RC Church Landmark
    720 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 195 Linden Street Older adult center
    670 feet
  2. Hope Gardens Community Center
    740 feet
  3. Older adult center at 1175 Gates Avenue Older adult center
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    440 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Central Avenue or Linden Street.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.