East 31st Street & Tilden Avenue

East 31st Street and Tilden Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Erasmus, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Rogers/Tilden/Veronica Place Garden is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Beverly Rd, is about three minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat. About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1910 and 1931, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
7 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverly Rd
850 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
Nostrand Av/Tilden Av · B44
Within a walk
13 places
8 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beverly Rd, 850 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beverly Rd 2, 5
    850 feet
    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. Church Av 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Tilden Av, 390 feet away, for the B44.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Tilden Av B44
    390 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Tilden Ave & Nostrand Ave 22 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3602 Snyder Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 395 Lenox Road Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
45
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Erasmus
Elevation
43 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 24 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2020 and April 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 31st Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 31st Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Tilden Avenue

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

South side of Tilden Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden
  • 1 police station
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Garden of Knowledge Day Care & Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    700 feet
  2. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    960 feet
  3. P.S. 181 Brooklyn School
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rogers/Tilden/Veronica Place Garden
    1,200 feet

Fire and police

  1. 67th Precinct Police station
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

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

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.