Lincoln Place & Underhill Avenue

Lincoln Place and Underhill Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Union Temple Brooklyn is 290 feet away, and Mt Prospect Park Playground is 870 feet away. The nearest subway, Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, is about five minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, three of them parks, and six places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum
1,250 feet · 5 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
870 feet
Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza · B41
Within a walk
14 places
3 parks, 2 libraries and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lincoln Place & Underhill Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, 1,250 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    1,250 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. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3
  2. 7 Av B, Q
    0.5 miles
    B Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “New York City Architectural Artifacts from the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum” (2004) by MTA Arts & Design Collaborative at the Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza, 870 feet away, for the B41.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Grand Army Plaza B41 · Shelter
    870 feet
    B41
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Underhill Avenue.

  • 70 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 10 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Underhill Ave & Lincoln Pl 27 docks in all
    120 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
144 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,600 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 1914 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 77 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the pin oak and the silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and May 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lincoln Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Lincoln Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Underhill Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 300755.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 98 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1899 and 1904.

  1. Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Designated landmark
    790 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Brooklyn Public Library Gates Decorative panels by Thomas Hudson Jones, 1941
    550 feet
  2. The Navy: American Sailors At Sea Urged On By the Genius of Patriotism Relief by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1901
    770 feet
  3. Ulysses S. Grant Bas-relief by Thomas Eakins and William Rudolph O'Donovan, 1901
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 2 libraries
  • 2 monuments or memorials
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Trustees of the Congregation Beth Elohim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    290 feet
  2. Bard Brooklyn Public Library College · landmark · listed historic place
    720 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mount Prospect Park
    400 feet
  2. Grand Army Plaza
    640 feet
  3. Mt Prospect Park Playground
    870 feet
Show all 6
  1. Prospect Park
    970 feet
  2. Stranahan Monument in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,050 feet
  3. James Forten Playground
    1,070 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Central Library Landmark · listed historic place
    720 feet
  2. Central Library Learning Center Library · landmark · listed historic place
    720 feet
  3. General Henry Warner Slocum Monument Monument or memorial
    800 feet
Show all 4
  1. General Warren Statue Monument or memorial
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Temple Brooklyn Listed historic place
    290 feet
  2. Duryea Presbyterian Church Landmark
    560 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Lincoln Place or Underhill Avenue.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.