East 51st Street & Tilden Avenue

East 51st Street and Tilden Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Rose Marie César Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Tilden Playground is 610 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Tilden Av, is 310 feet away for the B46, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Utica Av/Tilden Av · B46
Within a walk
15 places
6 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 51st Street & Tilden Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Tilden Av, 310 feet away, for the B46.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utica Av/Tilden Av B46
    310 feet
    B46

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 48 St & Tilden Ave 28 docks in all
    830 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1141 Utica Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
45
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Rugby
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Rose Marie César Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rose Marie César Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 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 51st Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 51st 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

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Faces of the Future Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
  2. Oholei Torah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,010 feet
  3. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brooklyn Science and Engineering Academy School
    1,120 feet
  2. P.S. 244 Richard R. Green School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Tilden Playground
    610 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Rugby Library
    480 feet
  2. Robinson, John Roosevelt Jackie" Listed historic place
    560 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Universal Church House of worship
    520 feet
  2. Rugby Congregational Church Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 310/Ladder 174 Fire station
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 51st 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 Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.