Hegeman Avenue & Linwood Street

Hegeman Avenue and Linwood Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Virginia Burroughs Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Linwood Playground is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them playgrounds, and one place to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
930 feet
New Lots Av/Linwood St · B15
Within a walk
9 places
2 playgrounds, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hegeman Avenue & Linwood Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. New Lots Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New Lots Av/Linwood St, 930 feet away, for the B15.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av/Linwood St B15
    930 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Warwick St & Hegeman Ave 14 docks in all
    1,070 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1939 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Virginia Burroughs Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2026 (Local Law 48 of 2026).

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Virginia Burroughs Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and March 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Hegeman Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Linwood Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Linwood Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    220 feet
  2. Achievement First Aspire Charter School
    1,050 feet
  3. P.S. 202 Ernest S. Jenkyns School
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linwood Playground
    260 feet
  2. Elton Playground
    410 feet
  3. Family Community Garden Brooklyn Garden
    640 feet

Health care

  1. Linden Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    990 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gabriels RC Church House of worship
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,210 feet
  2. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and ten 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hegeman Avenue or Linwood Street.

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