Nostrand Avenue & Lincoln Place

Nostrand Avenue and Lincoln Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Crown Heights North II Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Epiphany Lutheran Elementary School is 650 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about two minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 34 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
450 feet · 2 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Nostrand Av/Saint Johns Pl · B44, B44 SBS
Within a walk
19 places
12 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Lincoln Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 450 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av 3
    450 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
    1,000 feet
    2 5
  2. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Saint Johns Pl, 50 feet away, for the B44 and B44 SBS.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Saint Johns Pl B44, B44 SBS
    50 feet
    B44 B44 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …
  2. B44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Nostrand Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lincoln Pl & Nostrand Ave 25 docks in all
    80 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2016

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
105 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1904 and 1921.

Since 2014 at least 34 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Princeton' American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2023 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lincoln Place

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

South side of Lincoln Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • Truck loading only 4 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-NOON

West side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8:30AM-NOON 2PM-7PM SATURDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-2PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 307305 and 333028.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Crown Heights North II Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 205 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1897 and 1902.

  1. Kings County Savings Bank Designated landmark
    190 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany of Brooklyn NY School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    580 feet
  2. Epiphany Lutheran Elementary School
    650 feet
  3. Park Place DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    890 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  2. Park Place Day Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,150 feet
  3. M a C a D E M Y School · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Philadelphia Sabbath Cathedral Listed historic place
    530 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    480 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Lincoln Place or Nostrand Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.