East 31st Street & Avenue R

East 31st Street and Avenue R meet at a four-way crossing in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Marine Park is 820 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue R/E 31 St, is 50 feet away for the B2, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and two places to eat.

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East 31st Street & Avenue R Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue R/E 31 St, 50 feet away, for the B2.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue R/E 31 St B2
    50 feet
    B2

Next buses at this stop

  1. B2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2791 Nostrand Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.7 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2021.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marine Park
    820 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance 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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

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.