Lincoln Place & Buffalo Avenue

Lincoln Place and Buffalo Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca is 790 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av-Rutland Rd
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Eastern Pkwy/Buffalo Av · B14
Within a walk
18 places
14 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lincoln Place & Buffalo Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.4 miles
    3 4

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Ailanthus” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Sutter Av-Rutland Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Eastern Pkwy/Buffalo Av, 350 feet away, for the B14.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy/Buffalo Av B14
    350 feet
    B14

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Buffalo Ave & St John's Pl 21 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1412 Eastern Parkway Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
41
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
102 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 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 1921 and 1924.

Since 2014 at least 59 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Lincoln Place

  • No standing 11 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Lincoln Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon Excellence Girls CMS School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    470 feet
  2. St. John's Place Renaissance Garden
    680 feet
  3. Ralph-Lincoln Service Center Garden
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca House of worship
    790 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 13 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 Buffalo Avenue or Lincoln Place.

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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.