Longwood

Neighborhood · Bronx

Longwood lies in the southeast Bronx, with Southern Boulevard as its main thoroughfare.

  • 0.55 square miles
  • 40,289 residents, 2020 Census
  • 108 street corners
  • 7 subway stations
  • 11 bus routes

When plans for an IRT subway link to Manhattan were made public in the late 1890s, speculators and builders turned to the area, and the line's completion in 1904 set off a building boom that lasted nearly 30 years. The Longwood Historic District, designated in 1980, holds semi-detached houses in a neo-Renaissance style, nearly all designed between 1897 and 1900 and most by architect Warren C. Dickerson, on Beck, Kelly and Dawson Streets and East 156th Street.

Sources: Longwood Historic District Designation Report (LP-1075) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Longwood Historic District (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Longwood, Bronx (Wikipedia).

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Longwood borders five areas, and Westchester Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 18 of 108.

Street map of Longwood, Bronx, outlined among Hunts Point, Crotona Park East, Morrisania and Melrose, with its seven subway stations and Bill Rainey Park.Crotona Park EastHunts PointMelroseMott Haven-Port MorrisMorrisania
  • Longwood
  • 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

  • Whitlock Av lines 6
  • Simpson St lines 2 5 accessible
  • Intervale Av lines 2 5
  • Hunts Point Av lines 6 accessible
  • Prospect Av lines 2 5
  • Longwood Av lines 6
  • E 149 St lines 6 accessible

Getting around

Seven subway stations and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Longwood.

  • 7 subway stations
  • 3 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 11 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx4
  • Bx4A
  • Bx5
  • Bx6
  • Bx6-SBS
  • Bx17
  • Bx19
  • Bx27
  • Bx35
  • Bx46
  • T102

Safety record

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

  • 1,080 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 10.0 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 5 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 39 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
28
Accessible pedestrian signals
25
Turn calming
5
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Enhanced crossings
1
Safety Improvement Projects
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
  • 1,185 school-zone speed camera tickets at six corners
  • 7,492 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners
Most speed tickets
Timpson Place & Avenue St John, 314
Most bus-lane tickets
East 163rd Street & Simpson Street, 6,732

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 40,289 residents in Longwood, about 73,300 per square mile.

  • 14,417 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,505 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,305 residential lots hold buildings from 1931 or earlier, and 51% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

Three NYCHA developments, which NYCHA names by buildings' addresses, lie wholly or partly within Longwood.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
20 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Bill Rainey Park (7.7 acres), Al Quiñones Playground (1.8 acres) and Rev J Polite Playground (1.8 acres)
Designated landmark
62nd Police Precinct Station House
Historic districts
Longwood and Longwood Extension, wholly or partly within Longwood

Streets and trees

Trees
3,049 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
Westchester Avenue, with 18 of the area's 108
Height above sea level
From 26 feet at Intervale Avenue & Beck Street to 87 feet at Tinton Avenue & Home Street
Honorary street names
28 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists 23 schools in Longwood.

Public schools
14
Charter and private schools
9

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 16 bike-share stations stand in Longwood.

  • 16 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 724 major felonies at places in Longwood.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Longwood

  • 843 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,817 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Longwood, the NYPD recorded another 242 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 24.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Longwood.

Police precincts
41st (most of the area), 42nd
Major felonies recorded at places in Longwood, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 289 major felonies at places in Longwood, against 374 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.