Lincoln Place & Plaza Street West

Lincoln Place and Plaza Street West meet at a three-way junction in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza and lies inside the Park Slope Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Montauk Club stands 120 feet away. The nearest subway, Grand Army Plaza, is about a minute on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them monuments or memorials, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Grand Army Plaza
270 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Flatbush Av/Plaza St East · B41, B69
Within a walk
15 places
3 monuments or memorials, 3 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lincoln Place & Plaza Street West Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Grand Army Plaza, 270 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    270 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. 7 Av B, Q
    1,220 feet
    B Q
  2. Bergen St 2, 3
    0.5 miles
    2 3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wings for the IRT: The Irresistible Romance of Travel” (1995) by Jane Greengold at the Grand Army Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Plaza St East, 350 feet away, for the B41 and B69.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Plaza St East B41, B69
    350 feet
    B41 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Lincoln Place and Plaza Street West.

  • 40 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Plaza St West & Flatbush Ave 49 docks in all
    240 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Park Slope
Elevation
125 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 170 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the black cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Plaza Street West

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Park Slope Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 252 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1883 and 1890.

  1. Montauk Club Designated landmark
    120 feet
  2. The Berkeley Institute Designated landmark
    690 feet
  3. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    700 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Grand Army Plaza.

  1. Dr. Alexander J.C. Skene Bust by John Massey Rhind, 1905
    350 feet
  2. John F. Kennedy Memorial Bust by Neil Estern, 1965
    360 feet
  3. Bailey Fountain Fountain by Eugene F. Savage, 1932
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 monuments or memorials
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 3 other places

This corner stands inside Grand Army Plaza.

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Free Space Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    660 feet
  2. Berkeley-Carroll School
    920 feet
  3. I.S. 340 School
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. Park Slope Child Care Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    surrounds this corner
  2. Prospect Park
    900 feet
  3. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    350 feet
  2. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    640 feet
  3. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    870 feet
Show all 5
  1. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    1,020 feet
  2. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Memorial Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,220 feet
  2. Grace United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    520 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lincoln Place or Plaza Street West.

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