Ralph Avenue & Lincoln Place

Ralph Avenue and Lincoln Place meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Robert Matthews Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St. John's Place Renaissance Garden is 370 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, is about six minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, 17 of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av-Rutland Rd
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Ralph Av/Eastern Pkwy · B15, B47
Within a walk
26 places
17 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ralph Avenue & Lincoln Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Ailanthus” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Sutter Av-Rutland Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Eastern Pkwy, 190 feet away, for the B15 and B47.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Eastern Pkwy B15, B47 · Shelter
    190 feet
    B15 B47
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Ralph Ave 21 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1412 Eastern Parkway Gas station
    720 feet
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73 and 77 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ocean Hill
Elevation
76 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Robert Matthews Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 1913 and 1925.

Since 2014 at least 37 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Robert Matthews Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lincoln Place

  • No standing 9 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Lincoln Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Ralph Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Ralph Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 17 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 pedestrian plaza

Schools and child care

  1. Inner Force Tots Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ralph-Lincoln Service Center Garden
    320 feet
  2. St. John's Place Renaissance Garden
    370 feet
  3. Brownsville Green Garden
    530 feet
Show all 6
  1. Sterling Community Group Garden
    680 feet
  2. Zion Triangle
    1,180 feet
  3. Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Zion Triangle Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Parkway Theater Listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    470 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lincoln Place or Ralph Avenue.

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