Flatbush Avenue & Lincoln Road

Flatbush Avenue and Lincoln Road meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,605 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Prospect Park is 600 feet away, and Breeze Hill in Prospect Park is 1,130 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about a minute on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them park features, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
360 feet · 1 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Flatbush Av/Lincoln Rd · B41
Within a walk
12 places
3 park features, 3 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Lincoln Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 360 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    360 feet
    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. Parkside Av Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

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 Flatbush Av/Lincoln Rd, 40 feet away, for the B41.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Lincoln Rd B41
    40 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Flatbush Ave & Lincoln Rd 23 docks in all
    190 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    260 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,605 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 519th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 730 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
69 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 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 1926 and 1939.

Since 2014 at least 70 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2015 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Lincoln Road

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Lincoln Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 305130 and 305721.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 132 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Georgian, and mostly built between 1909 and 1922.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 park features
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
  2. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    450 feet
  3. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    740 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    580 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    600 feet
  3. Lincoln Road Playground
    700 feet
Show all 5
  1. Concert Grove in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,110 feet
  2. Breeze Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,130 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. John Hus Moravian Church House of worship
    860 feet
  2. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush House of worship
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    1,240 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Lincoln Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.