Linden Boulevard & Alabama Avenue

Linden Boulevard and Alabama Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 40 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Collegiate Academy for Mathematics and Personal Awareness Charter School is 1,290 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
40 hurt
40 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
910 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Linden Blvd · B20
Within a walk
11 places
8 religious buildings, 1 garden and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Linden Boulevard & Alabama Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. New Lots Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “16 Windows” (2007) by Eugenie Tung at the New Lots Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Linden Blvd, 910 feet away, for the B20.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Linden Blvd B20
    910 feet
    B20

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sheffield Ave & Linden Blvd 12 docks in all
    710 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1868 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    270 feet
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.4 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 40 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 40 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Alabama Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of Alabama Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

North side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Collegiate Academy for Mathematics and Personal Awareness Charter School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prophecy Garden
    900 feet
  2. Breukelen Ballfields Park
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

See every intersection along Alabama Avenue or Linden Boulevard.

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