Linwood Street & Folsom Place

Linwood Street and Folsom Place meet at a three-way junction in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sperandeo Brothers Playground is 520 feet away, and Achievement First Apollo Charter School is 1,030 feet away. The nearest subway, Cleveland St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cleveland St
940 feet · 4 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
Atlantic Av/Linwood St · Q24
Within a walk
18 places
9 religious buildings, 6 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Linwood Street & Folsom Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cleveland St, 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cleveland St J
    940 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Norwood Av J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z
  2. Shepherd Av C
    0.4 miles
    C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Las Flores” (2007) by Amy Cheng at the Cleveland St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Atlantic Av/Linwood St, 410 feet away, for the Q24.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av/Linwood St Q24
    410 feet
    Q24

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Shepherd Ave & Fulton St 12 docks in all
    930 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 2822 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
34 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 115 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the eastern redbud and the paper birch.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and September 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Folsom Place

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

South side of Folsom Place

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

East side of Linwood Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Romanesque Revival, and built in 1895.

  1. Public School 108 Designated landmark
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 108 Sal Abbracciamento School
    790 feet
  2. Followers of Jesus School
    840 feet
  3. East Brooklyn Ascend Charter School
    940 feet
Show all 6
  1. Achievement First Apollo Charter School
    1,030 feet
  2. Liberty Avenue Middle School
    1,030 feet
  3. Vista Academy School
    1,030 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sperandeo Brothers Playground
    520 feet
  2. Essex Street Community Garden
    590 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Substation #401 (BMT) Listed historic place
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Folsom Place or Linwood Street.

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