Linden Boulevard & Eldert Lane

Linden Boulevard and Eldert Lane meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-City Line, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Pink development. The corner is also named Akai Gurley Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 39 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Pink Community Center is 640 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Linden Blvd/Eldert LN, is 90 feet away for the B15 and BM5. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them nursing homes or hospices, and one place to eat.

Safety record
40 hurt
39 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Linden Blvd/Eldert LN · B15, BM5
Within a walk
8 places
2 nursing homes or hospices, 1 community center and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Linden Boulevard & Eldert Lane Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Linden Blvd/Eldert LN, 90 feet away, for the B15 and BM5.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Linden Blvd/Eldert LN B15, BM5
    90 feet
    B15 BM5

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. BM5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Cross Bay Boulevard, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 640 Conduit Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2797 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    750 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 39 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-City Line
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Akai Gurley Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1963 and 1964.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Pink development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Akai Gurley Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Eldert Lane

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Eldert Lane

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Colony South Brooklyn Houses Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    520 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pink Playground
    1,180 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn-Queens Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    670 feet
  2. Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home Nursing home or hospice
    750 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Pink Community Center
    640 feet
  2. Older adult center at 2702 Linden Boulevard Older adult center
    640 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 39/Engine 225/Ladder 107 Fire station
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    350 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place 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 corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Eldert Lane or Linden Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.