Fulton Street & Lincoln Avenue

Fulton Street and Lincoln Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Highland Park Community School is 640 feet away. The nearest subway, Crescent St, is about three minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1905 and 1920, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
8 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crescent St
910 feet · 3 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
840 feet
Fulton St/Crescent St · J90
Within a walk
6 places
3 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Fulton Street & Lincoln Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crescent St, 910 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crescent St J, Z
    910 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. Cypress Hills J
    0.5 miles
    J

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wheel of Bloom-Soak up the Sun” (2007) by Jung Hyang Kim at the Crescent St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Fulton St/Crescent St, 840 feet away, for the J90.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fulton St/Crescent St J90
    840 feet
    J90

Next buses at this stop

  1. J90 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 40 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 81-02 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 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.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Fulton Street

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Fulton Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Lincoln Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Lincoln Avenue

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 325495 and 338979.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Highland Park Community School
    640 feet
  2. I.S. 171 Abraham Lincoln School
    640 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Legion Triangle
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. East New York Baptist Church House of worship
    760 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    480 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    740 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,010 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 20 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Fulton Street or Lincoln Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.