Linden Boulevard & East 53rd Street

Linden Boulevard and East 53rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 268 Emma Lazarus is 1,220 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Church Av/E 52 St, is 790 feet away for the B35, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
31 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
2.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
790 feet
Church Av/E 52 St · B35
Within a walk
10 places
6 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Linden Boulevard & East 53rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/E 52 St, 790 feet away, for the B35.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/E 52 St B35
    790 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 54 St & Linden Blvd 12 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 31 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 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2019
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 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
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 1,500 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.

Since 2014 at least 8 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the maidenhair tree and the red maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2021 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 53rd Street

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

West side of East 53rd Street

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

North side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Faces of the Future Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
  2. Edso Dental Assistant Training Cente Trade or language school
    860 feet
  3. Einstein Daycare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 268 Emma Lazarus School
    1,220 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 11 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 53rd 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.