Linden Boulevard & East 45th Street

Linden Boulevard and East 45th Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 135 Sheldon A. Brookner is 800 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Church Av/Troy Av, is 910 feet away for the B35, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
910 feet
Church Av/Troy Av · B35
Within a walk
16 places
10 religious buildings, 4 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Linden Boulevard & East 45th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/Troy Av, 910 feet away, for the B35.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/Troy Av B35
    910 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Troy Ave & Linden Blvd 23 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3602 Snyder Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2019
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
41
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Rugby
Elevation
40 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and December 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 45th Street

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

West side of East 45th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

North side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 4 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.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites

Schools and child care

  1. High Definition Kids Daycare Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    90 feet
  2. Gan Academy - Linden School
    110 feet
  3. Battalion Christian Academy School
    530 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 135 Sheldon A. Brookner School
    800 feet
  2. Excelsior Elementary School
    850 feet
  3. Innovators Prep Preschool
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Catherine of Genoa Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. 4003 Church Farm Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and one food store.

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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 45th 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.