Crotona Park East

Neighborhood · Bronx

Crotona Park East runs from Crotona and Prospect Avenues east to the Bronx River, between East 167th Street and the Cross Bronx Expressway, in the South Bronx.

  • 0.57 square miles
  • 30,158 residents, 2020 Census
  • 118 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 8 bus routes

From 1670 its land belonged to the Morris family's estate in what was then Westchester County. On Charlotte Street, ranch-style houses built in the late 1980s were the first of their kind in the South Bronx, and Starlight Park lies beside the Sheridan Expressway, flanked by the woods along the Bronx River.

Sources: Crotona Park East, Bronx (Wikipedia); Starlight Park (NYC Parks).

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Crotona Park East borders seven areas, and Jennings Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 17 of 118.

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  • Crotona Park East
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 174 St lines 2 5
  • Freeman St lines 2 5
  • Whitlock Av lines 6

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on eight routes stop in or at the edge of Crotona Park East.

  • 3 subway stations
  • 8 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx4
  • Bx4A
  • Bx11
  • Bx17
  • Bx19
  • Bx21
  • Bx27
  • Bx35

Safety record

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

  • 973 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 8.2 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 11 corners with a clean record

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

Leading pedestrian intervals
29
Accessible pedestrian signals
25
Turn calming
2
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 6,440 school-zone speed camera tickets at four corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Longfellow Avenue & Jennings Street, 3,119

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 30,158 residents in Crotona Park East, about 52,900 per square mile.

  • 11,641 homes, 2020 Census
  • 3,541 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,390 residential lots hold buildings from 1989 or earlier, and 38% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's West Farms Square Conventional development lies wholly or partly within Crotona Park East, as do four more that NYCHA names by buildings' addresses.

West Farms Square Conventional
Within Crotona Park East; privately managed

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
25.5 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Starlight Park (15.8 acres), Concrete Plant Park (6.2 acres) and Daniel Boone Playground (1.3 acres)
Designated landmark
The Herman Ridder Junior High School

Streets and trees

Trees
2,766 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, Japanese zelkova and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
Jennings Street, with 17 of the area's 118
Height above sea level
From 13 feet at East 173rd Street & West Farms Road to 108 feet at Crotona Park East & Crotona Park North
Honorary street names
12 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists 15 schools in Crotona Park East.

Public schools
13
Charter and private schools
2

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 14 bike-share stations stand in Crotona Park East.

  • 14 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 695 major felonies at places in Crotona Park East.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Crotona Park East

  • 666 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,983 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Crotona Park East, the NYPD recorded another 129 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 27.3 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Crotona Park East.

Police precincts
42nd (most of the area), 43rd, 41st
Major felonies recorded at places in Crotona Park East, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 275 major felonies at places in Crotona Park East, against 366 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.