Jamaica Avenue & Linwood Street

Jamaica Avenue and Linwood Street meet at a three-way junction in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The statue “Dawn of Glory” is 550 feet away, and P.S. 108 Sal Abbracciamento is 1,120 feet away. The nearest subway, Cleveland St, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them parks.

Safety record
7 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cleveland St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Jamaica Av/Linwood St · Q56
Within a walk
9 places
2 parks, 1 day care or pre-K site and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jamaica Avenue & Linwood Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cleveland St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cleveland St J
    0.4 miles
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Norwood Av J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Las Flores” (2007) by Amy Cheng at the Cleveland St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/Linwood St, 120 feet away, for the Q56.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/Linwood St Q56
    120 feet
    Q56

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q56 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Jamaica Ave & Elton St 18 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 596 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    1,010 feet
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    900 feet
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2024
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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
54 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 88 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Jamaica Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Linwood Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Linwood Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Highland Park.

  1. Dawn of Glory Statue by Pietro Montana, 1924
    550 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New Age Family Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    400 feet
  2. P.S. 108 Sal Abbracciamento School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highland Park
    40 feet
  2. Lower Highland Playground
    50 feet
  3. Highland Park Community Garden
    870 feet
Show all 4
  1. Sam Leggio Triangle
    960 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public School 108 Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Worship Center Iglesia Cristiana House of worship
    1,050 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. North Brooklyn YMCA Recreation center
    640 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Jamaica Avenue or Linwood Street.

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