Linden Boulevard & East 39th Street

Linden Boulevard and East 39th Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 235 Janice Marie Knight School is 850 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Church Av/E 39 St, is 780 feet away for the B35, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
780 feet
Church Av/E 39 St · B35
Within a walk
16 places
11 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Linden Boulevard & East 39th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/E 39 St, 780 feet away, for the B35.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/E 39 St B35
    780 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 38 St & Church Ave 24 docks in all
    1,000 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3602 Snyder Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 597 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
40
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Rugby
Elevation
47 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 39th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of East 39th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Linden Boulevard

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    600 feet
  2. East Flatbush Ascend Charter School
    670 feet
  3. Bryan's Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    780 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 235 Janice Marie Knight School
    850 feet
  2. Inner Force Kids Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Catherine of Genoa Church House of worship
    490 feet
  2. Mount Zion Church of God Listed historic place
    630 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 4003 Church Farm Market Supermarket
    1,000 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 39th Street or Linden Boulevard.

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