Tillary Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
Tillary Street and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Exit 29) meet at a three-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The sculpture “Pageant” is 780 feet away. About 3,500 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more. NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredCycling
- 1 bicycle rack 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 station1,060 feet
- 152 Ashland Place Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers0.6 miles
- 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars2 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11201
- Community board
- Brooklyn Community Board 2
- City Council district
- 35
- Police precinct
- 84
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- A designated truck route
- Two of the streets are one-way
Homes
About 3,500 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 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.
Monuments and public art
How landmarks are placedThe City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Flatbush Avenue Extension.
- Pageant Sculpture by Brian Tolle, 2017780 feet
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