Linden Boulevard & East 48th Street

Linden Boulevard and East 48th Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 135 Sheldon A. Brookner is 190 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Linden Blvd, is 630 feet away for the B46, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Utica Av/Linden Blvd · B46
Within a walk
14 places
6 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Linden Boulevard & East 48th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Linden Blvd, 630 feet away, for the B46.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utica Av/Linden Blvd B46
    630 feet
    B46

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 51 St & Linden Blvd 21 docks in all
    850 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5802 Church Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 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
41
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Rugby
Elevation
32 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 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of East 48th Street

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

West side of East 48th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 post office
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 135 Sheldon A. Brookner School
    190 feet
  2. Battalion Christian Academy School
    430 feet
  3. Edso Dental Assistant Training Cente Trade or language school
    720 feet
Show all 7
  1. High Definition Kids Daycare Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    890 feet
  2. Gan Academy - Linden School
    920 feet
  3. Apple Tree Daycare Ac Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    980 feet
  4. Apple Tree Learning Center School
    1,050 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Rugby Post Office
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    870 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and seven 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 48th 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.