New York Avenue & Lincoln Place

New York Avenue and Lincoln Place meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Benny A. Lyde Place by local law. It lies inside the Crown Heights North II Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Kings County Savings Bank stands 700 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
1,090 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
New York Av/Eastern Pkwy · B44
Within a walk
8 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & Lincoln Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 1,090 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av 3
    1,090 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5
  2. Kingston Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Eastern Pkwy, 180 feet away, for the B44.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Eastern Pkwy B44 · Shelter
    180 feet
    B44
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & New York Ave 25 docks in all
    650 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
98 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Benny A. Lyde Place, a co-naming enacted on December 28, 2009 (Local Law 92 of 2009).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1912.

Since 2014 at least 48 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the American elm and the green ash.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Benny A. Lyde Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2020 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lincoln Place

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Lincoln Place

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North II Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 370 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1899 and 1907.

  1. Kings County Savings Bank Designated landmark
    700 feet
  2. St. Gregory the Great School Designated landmark
    730 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Eastern Parkway School
    700 feet
  2. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    830 feet
  3. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    830 feet
Show all 4
  1. M a C a D E M Y School · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Listed historic place
    560 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gregory the Great RC Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and four 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 Lincoln Place or New York Avenue.

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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.