Allerton

Neighborhood · Bronx

Bordered on the west by the Bronx River Parkway and Bronx Park, Allerton covers a low, level stretch of the east Bronx just north of Pelham Parkway.

  • 0.57 square miles
  • 34,623 residents, 2020 Census
  • 111 street corners
  • 1 subway station
  • 8 bus routes

The neighborhood is named for Daniel Allerton (1818–1877), who bought and farmed land in the area with his wife, and in 1914 the city built Allerton Avenue across former estate land. Its streets are lined mainly with multi-unit homes, served by the elevated White Plains Road line, which carries the 2 and 5 trains, and the New York Public Library's Allerton branch has served the area from Barnes Avenue since 1959.

Sources: Allerton Playground (NYC Parks); Allerton, Bronx (Wikipedia); About (Bronx Community Board 11); Allerton Library (New York Public Library).

Map

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Allerton borders five areas, and Boston Road and Williamsbridge Road hold more of its corners than any other street, 15 each of 111.

Street map of Allerton, Bronx, outlined among Bronx Park, Pelham Gardens, Williamsbridge-Olinville and Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, with its one subway station and Mazzei Playground.Williamsbridge-OlinvillePelham GardensMorris ParkPelham Parkway-Van NestBronx Park
  • Allerton
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Allerton Av lines 2 5

Getting around

One subway station and buses on eight routes stop in or at the edge of Allerton.

  • 1 subway station
  • 7 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Bx8
  • Bx25
  • Bx26
  • Bx30
  • Bx39
  • T113
  • T117

Express bus route

  • BxM11

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Bronx corner.

  • 753 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 6.8 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 8 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 34 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
25
Accessible pedestrian signals
17
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
4
Turn calming
3
Safety Improvement Projects
3

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 6,866 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 9,246 school-zone speed camera tickets at 12 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Barnes Avenue & Allerton Avenue, 3,528
Most speed tickets
Boston Road & Waring Avenue, 1,723

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 34,623 residents in Allerton, about 60,700 per square mile.

  • 13,899 homes, 2020 Census
  • 839 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,463 residential lots hold buildings from 1945 or earlier, and 46% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Parkside development lies wholly or partly within Allerton, as does one more that NYCHA names by a building's address.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
3.3 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Mazzei Playground (1.5 acres), Zimmerman Playground (1 acre) and Parkside Playground (0.8 acre)
Designated landmark
The Coops

Streets and trees

Trees
2,113 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Boston Road, with 15 of the area's 111
Height above sea level
From 67 feet at Bronx Park East & Bronx River Parkway to 138 feet at Williamsbridge Road & Allerton Avenue
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 14 schools and one library in Allerton.

Public schools
12
Charter and private schools
2
Library
Allerton Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 622 major felonies at places in Allerton.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Allerton

  • 541 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,823 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Allerton, the NYPD recorded another 169 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 22.8 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Allerton.

Map of Allerton: 11 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Allerton, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Allerton, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Allerton are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Allerton and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
49th (most of the area), 47th
Major felonies recorded at places in Allerton, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 285 major felonies at places in Allerton, against 296 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.