Rogers Avenue & Lincoln Road

Rogers Avenue and Lincoln Road meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Lincoln Road Garden is 390 feet away, and Fenimore St United Methodist Church is 1,120 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Rogers Av/Lincoln Rd · B49
Within a walk
13 places
5 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rogers Avenue & Lincoln Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.5 miles
    B Q S
  2. Winthrop St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rogers Av/Lincoln Rd, 100 feet away, for the B49.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rogers Av/Lincoln Rd B49
    100 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Lincoln Road.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rogers Ave & Lincoln Rd 23 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 240 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    850 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
60 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1906 and 1928.

Since 2014 at least 5 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and March 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lincoln Road

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

South side of Lincoln Road

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Rogers Avenue

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

West side of Rogers Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 446 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1905 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Hollow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    340 feet
  2. Collective Play Ground Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    660 feet
  3. Daisley Institute Trade or language school
    990 feet
Show all 4
  1. Lefferts Gardens Montessori School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maple Street Community Garden
    330 feet
  2. Lincoln Road Garden
    390 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush House of worship
    1,060 feet
  2. Fenimore St United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,120 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 249/Ladder 113 Fire station
    510 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Lincoln Road or Rogers 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.