Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Tillary Street
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Tillary Street meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredCycling
- 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.
- 160 Johnson Street Gas station0.3 miles
- 152 Ashland Place Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers0.6 miles
- 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars2.1 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.
The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11201
- Community board
- Brooklyn Community Board 2
- City Council district
- 35
- Police precinct
- 84 and 88 (the boundary runs through this corner)
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
The streets
- One travel lane
- One of the streets is one-way
Homes
About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.
Since 2014 at least 86 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.
Trees
NYC Parks records 21 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the Norway maple.
Not on record for this corner:
- A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
- A bus stop within a ten-minute walk
- A signal or safety change
- A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
- A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
- A listed public place within a five-minute walk