East New York Avenue & East 98th Street

East New York Avenue and East 98th Street meet at a three-way junction in Brownsville, Brooklyn, at the edge of Lincoln Terrace Park. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av-Rutland Rd
640 feet · 2 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
East New York Av/Portal St · B12
Within a walk
17 places
10 religious buildings, 4 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East New York Avenue & East 98th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, 640 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    640 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.5 miles
    3 4

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Ailanthus” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Sutter Av-Rutland Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is East New York Av/Portal St, 90 feet away, for the B12.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. East New York Av/Portal St B12
    90 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East New York Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Buffalo Ave & E New York Ave 24 docks in all
    550 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. 1412 Eastern Parkway Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 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
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
41
Police precinct
67 and 73 and 77 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville; the corner is on the edge of the Lincoln Terrace Park area
Elevation
53 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1923 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 33 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 86 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 98th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of East 98th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING SUNDAY 8AM-5PM

South side of East New York Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Aspirations Diploma Plus High School
    180 feet
  2. Brownsville Academy High School
    180 feet
  3. Inner Force Tots Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 189 the Bilingual Center School
    600 feet
  2. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers< Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
  3. Brooklyn Ascend Charter Middle School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    50 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    950 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 98th Street or East New York Avenue.

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