Avenue M & East 31st Street

Avenue M and East 31st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church is 780 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Nostrand Av/Avenue M, is 330 feet away for the B44 and BM4, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Nostrand Av/Avenue M · B44, BM4
Within a walk
20 places
9 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue M & East 31st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Avenue M, 330 feet away, for the B44 and BM4.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Avenue M B44, BM4
    330 feet
    B44 BM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …
  2. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2791 Nostrand Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    810 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
45
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and April 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue M

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Avenue M

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of East 31st Street

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

West side of East 31st Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 306245.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. The Auditory/Oral School of NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    570 feet
  2. Auditory Oral School of New York Preschool
    800 feet
  3. Yeshiva Lev Torah - Site 2 School
    1,160 feet
Show all 8
  1. The Joan Snow Pre-K Center at 1340 East 29th Street Pre-K center
    1,010 feet
  2. Yeshiva Torah Vodaath School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet
  3. Yeshivat Lev Torah High School
    1,160 feet
  4. Yad Yisroel School
    1,210 feet
  5. Step-Special Torah Educ Prog School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fraser Square
    860 feet
  2. Andries Playground
    1,290 feet

Health care

  1. Mount Sinai Brooklyn Hospital
    790 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church House of worship
    780 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue M or East 31st Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.