Lincoln Place & Rochester Avenue

Lincoln Place and Rochester Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named HLR Apostolic Mecca Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca is 100 feet away, and Congregation Ohr Menachem is 1,220 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
1,200 feet · 5 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av · B14
Within a walk
25 places
15 religious buildings, 5 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lincoln Place & Rochester Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 1,200 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    1,200 feet
    3 4

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Good Morning and Good Night” (2004) by Hugo Consuegra at the Crown Hts-Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av, 290 feet away, for the B14.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy/Rochester Av B14
    290 feet
    B14

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Rochester Ave 24 docks in all
    440 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2023

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
112 feet above sea level

This corner is also named HLR Apostolic Mecca Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 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 1915 and 1924.

Since 2014 at least 47 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on HLR Apostolic Mecca Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and December 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lincoln Place

  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Lincoln Place

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

East side of Rochester Avenue

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

West side of Rochester Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Mt Moriah Christian Academy School
    700 feet
  2. Bka of NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet
  3. Brooklyn Kids Academy Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    910 feet
Show all 8
  1. Roots to Grow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    910 feet
  2. Congregation Ohr Menachem School
    1,220 feet
  3. Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy (Cbla) School
    1,270 feet
  4. Explore Empower Charter School
    1,270 feet
  5. M.S. K394 School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    470 feet
  2. Lincoln Terrace Park / Arthur S. Somers Playground
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Greater Bibleway Temple Apostolic Mecca House of worship
    100 feet
  2. Trinity Cme Methodist Church House of worship
    930 feet
  3. St Mathew RC Church House of worship
    1,050 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,130 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 13 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lincoln Place or Rochester Avenue.

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