Ocean Avenue & Lincoln Road

Ocean Avenue and Lincoln Road meet at a five-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn, at the edge of Prospect Park. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Willink Hill in Prospect Park is 30 feet away, and the bust “Edvard Grieg Memorial” is 780 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about a minute on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, eight of them park features, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
20 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
240 feet · 1 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Ocean Av/Lincoln Rd · B16
Within a walk
15 places
8 park features, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Lincoln Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 240 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    240 feet
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Parkside Av Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4” (1994) by Susan Tunick at the Prospect Park station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Lincoln Rd, 130 feet away, for the B16.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Lincoln Rd B16
    130 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on East Lake Drive and Lincoln Road.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lincoln Rd & Ocean Ave 23 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    810 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 20 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
City Council district
39 and 40 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
71 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate; the corner is on the edge of the Prospect Park area
Elevation
75 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,300 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 1925 and 1962.

Since 2014 at least 70 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 171 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the boxelder.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lincoln Road

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Lincoln Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 17 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 10AM-10PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 15 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 19 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Georgian. They were mostly built between 1912 and 1922.

  1. Music Pagoda Designated landmark
    560 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Prospect Park.

  1. Washington Irving Memorial Bust by James Wilson Alexander MacDonald, 1871
    550 feet
  2. Peter & Willie Statue by Otto Neals, 1997
    720 feet
  3. Edvard Grieg Memorial Bust by Sigvald Asbjornsen, 1914
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 park features
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    180 feet
  2. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,000 feet
  3. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    30 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    40 feet
  3. Lincoln Road Playground
    140 feet
Show all 11
  1. Concert Grove in Prospect Park Park feature
    560 feet
  2. Breeze Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    570 feet
  3. Imagination Playground
    790 feet
  4. Flower Garden in Prospect Park Park feature
    830 feet
  5. Boat House in Prospect Park Park feature · landmark · listed historic place
    850 feet
  6. Lullwater in Prospect Park Park feature
    970 feet
  7. Midwood in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,230 feet
  8. Carousel in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. John Hus Moravian Church House of worship
    520 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East Lake Drive, Lincoln Road or Ocean 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.