Washington Avenue & Lincoln Place

Washington Avenue and Lincoln Place meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Museum is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, is about three minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them day care or pre-K sites, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
17 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum
830 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
480 feet
Saint Johns Pl/Washington Av · B45
Within a walk
18 places
7 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Washington Avenue & Lincoln Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, 830 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    830 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.3 miles
    2 3 4 5 S
  2. Park Pl S
    0.4 miles
    S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “New York City Architectural Artifacts from the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum” (2004) by MTA Arts & Design Collaborative at the Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Johns Pl/Washington Av, 480 feet away, for the B45.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Johns Pl/Washington Av B45
    480 feet
    B45

Next buses at this stop

  1. B45 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Washington Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Johns Pl & Washington Ave 30 docks in all
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 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.

  • 17 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
145 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,900 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 1916 and 1926.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 49 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and April 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lincoln Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Lincoln Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Washington Avenue

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Washington Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 300755, 300756 and 333697.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1903 and 1911.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Sunflower Playhouse Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    110 feet
  2. Bumblebees -R-Us Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    700 feet
  3. Classon Avenue Pre-K
    710 feet
Show all 9
  1. Chai Tots Preschool of Prospect Heights Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    730 feet
  2. Wurzelkinder Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    840 feet
  3. Prospect Kids Academy #2 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,040 feet
  4. St Francis de Sales-Deaf-Brooklyn School
    1,160 feet
  5. Sunny Skies Prospect Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet
  6. Brooklyn Jesuit Prep School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dr. Ronald McNair Park
    570 feet
  2. Stroud Playground
    860 feet
  3. Mount Prospect Park
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Museum Landmark · listed historic place
    630 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 280/Ladder 132 Fire station
    750 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Lincoln Place or Washington 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.