Nostrand Avenue & Tilden Avenue

Nostrand Avenue and Tilden Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Erasmus, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 4,153 bus-lane and 2,627 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. It is 930 feet to the 67th Precinct. The nearest subway, Beverly Rd, is about three minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Nostrand Avenue, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
11 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverly Rd
730 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Nostrand Av/Tilden Av · B44
Within a walk
16 places
9 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Tilden Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beverly Rd, 730 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beverly Rd 2, 5
    730 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
  2. Newkirk Av-Little Haiti 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Tilden Av, 120 feet away, for the B44.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Nostrand Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1092 Rogers Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2,627 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 336th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,144 more were issued.

In 2025, 4,153 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 45th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 260 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets · Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

About this corner

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

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,200 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 40 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 53 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 8 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 12 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Nostrand Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-2PM

North side of Tilden Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

South side of Tilden Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 335108.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 1 police station
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Garden of Knowledge Day Care & Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    430 feet
  2. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    690 feet
  3. P.S. 399 Stanley Eugene Clark School
    1,230 feet
Show all 4
  1. Big Dreams Child Care Center II Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rogers/Tilden/Veronica Place Garden
    930 feet

Fire and police

  1. 67th Precinct Police station
    930 feet
  2. Battalion 41/Engine 248 Fire station
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and ten food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Nostrand Avenue or Tilden Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.