Belmont

Neighborhood · Bronx

Between Third Avenue and Bronx Park, home of the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden, Belmont reaches north across Fordham Road to take in most of the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University, which was founded as St. John's College in 1841.

  • 0.59 square miles
  • 35,825 residents, 2020 Census
  • 115 street corners
  • 11 bus routes

The neighborhood is named for the Lorillard tobacco family's Belmont estate; after the family moved away in 1870, part of the land went into Bronx Park and another part became streets. Italian families from Lower Manhattan made it the Little Italy of the Bronx around 1900, and by 1940 the indoor Arthur Avenue Retail Market had become an official home for its vendors.

Sources: Belmont, Bronx (Wikipedia); Must-See Arthur Avenue & Belmont (New York City Tourism); Fordham University (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Map

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Belmont borders seven areas, and East 187th Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 15 of 115.

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  • Belmont
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Belmont.

  • 11 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx9
  • Bx12
  • Bx12-SBS
  • Bx15
  • Bx17
  • Bx19
  • Bx22
  • Bx25
  • Bx26
  • Bx41
  • Bx41-SBS

Safety record

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

  • 1,357 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 11.8 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 7 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 40 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
28
Accessible pedestrian signals
23
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
5
Safety Improvement Projects
3
Turn calming
2
Enhanced crossings
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 7,755 school-zone speed camera tickets at six corners
  • 10,522 bus-lane camera tickets at three corners
Most speed tickets
Southern Boulevard & East 187th Street, 5,306
Most bus-lane tickets
Webster Avenue & East 194th Street, 5,421

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 35,825 residents in Belmont, about 60,700 per square mile.

  • 12,658 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,045 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,286 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 79% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
3.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Ciccarone Park (0.8 acre), Webster Playground (0.8 acre) and Rose Hill Park (0.7 acre)
Designated landmarks
The Engine Company 88 / Ladder Company 38, the Alumni House, Saint John's Hall and Saint John's Church

Streets and trees

Trees
2,279 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and Japanese zelkova
Street with the most corners
East 187th Street, with 15 of the area's 115
Height above sea level
From 40 feet at Webster Avenue & East 183rd Street to 104 feet at Cambreleng Avenue & Grote Street
Honorary street names
18 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 21 schools and one library in Belmont.

Public schools
18
Charter and private schools
3
Library
Belmont Library and Enrico Fermi Cultural Center

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 12 bike-share stations stand in Belmont. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Christopher Columbus (1926).

  • 12 bike-share stations
  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 732 major felonies at places in Belmont.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Belmont

  • 873 major felonies in 2024 141 fewer in 2025
  • 2,341 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Belmont, the NYPD recorded another 314 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 29.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Belmont.

Map of Belmont: 8 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 Belmont, 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 Belmont, 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 Belmont 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 Belmont and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
48th (most of the area), 52nd
Major felonies recorded at places in Belmont, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 340 major felonies at places in Belmont, against 373 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.