Lincoln Avenue & Ridgewood Avenue

Lincoln Avenue and Ridgewood Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Highland Park Community School is 150 feet away. The nearest subway, Crescent St, is about six minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat. About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1915, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
8 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crescent St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
910 feet
Crescent St/Ridgewood Av · B13
Within a walk
7 places
4 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lincoln Avenue & Ridgewood Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crescent St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crescent St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.3 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 Crescent St/Ridgewood Av, 910 feet away, for the B13.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Crescent St/Ridgewood Av B13
    910 feet
    B13

Next buses at this stop

  1. B13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 44 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. 74-08 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.5 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 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 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
34 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1915.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and April 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Lincoln Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Lincoln Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Ridgewood Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Legion Triangle
    980 feet

Houses of worship

  1. East New York Baptist Church House of worship
    300 feet
  2. Universal Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,300 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lincoln Avenue or Ridgewood 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.