Linden Boulevard & Schenck Avenue

Linden Boulevard and Schenck Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 51 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 4,009 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Linden Park is 900 feet away. The nearest subway, Van Siclen Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, five of them schools, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
45 hurt
51 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Van Siclen Av
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
650 feet
Van Siclen Av/Linden Blvd · B83
Within a walk
13 places
5 schools, 3 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Linden Boulevard & Schenck Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Van Siclen Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Van Siclen Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. New Lots Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Urban Garden Rail” (2017) by Saya Woolfalk at the Van Siclen Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Van Siclen Av/Linden Blvd, 650 feet away, for the B83.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Van Siclen Av/Linden Blvd B83
    650 feet
    B83

Next buses at this stop

  1. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Van Siclen Ave & Linden Blvd 14 docks in all
    650 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1939 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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 51 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 44 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 4,009 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 204th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,438 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

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 in 1953.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Linden Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Linden Boulevard

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Schenck Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Schenck Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Boulevard Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    160 feet
  2. East New York Family Academy School
    810 feet
  3. Achievement First Linden Charter School
    970 feet
Show all 6
  1. The East New York Arts and Civics High School
    970 feet
  2. Van Siclen Community Middle School
    970 feet
  3. P.S. 36 School
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linden Park
    900 feet

Health care

  1. Linden Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Boulevard Houses Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Boulevard Community Center
    1,140 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    390 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Farm Country Supermarket
    850 feet
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    1,150 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    890 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Linden Boulevard or Schenck Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.