Morris Park

Neighborhood · Bronx

Morris Park lies in the Bronx between White Plains Road and Eastchester Road, with Pelham Parkway, a late-19th-century link between Bronx Park and Pelham Bay Park, along its northern side.

  • 1.00 square mile
  • 25,077 residents, 2020 Census
  • 179 street corners
  • 1 subway station
  • 11 bus routes

It is named for John Albert Morris, who opened the Morris Park Racecourse here in 1889; the Belmont Stakes was run on its track, and the grounds hosted the first public air show. After 1910 the land was divided into building lots, and the neighborhood grew into a largely Italian-American community, with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Jacobi Medical Center along its eastern edge.

Sources: Morris Park, Bronx (Wikipedia); Pelham Parkway (NYC Parks).

Map

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Morris Park borders five areas, and Morris Park Avenue and Rhinelander Avenue hold more of its corners than any other street, 18 each of 179.

Street map of Morris Park, Bronx, outlined among Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, Pelham Gardens, Westchester Square and Hutchinson Metro Center, with its one subway station and Loreto Playground.Pelham GardensHutchinson Metro CenterWestchester SquarePelham Parkway-Van NestAllerton
  • Morris Park
  • 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

  • Morris Park lines 5

Getting around

One subway station and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Morris Park.

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

Local bus routes

  • Bx4A
  • Bx8
  • Bx12
  • Bx12-SBS
  • Bx21
  • Bx24
  • Bx31
  • Bx40
  • Bx42
  • T113

Express bus route

  • BxM10

Safety record

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

  • 728 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.1 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 39 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 30 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
23
Accessible pedestrian signals
17
Turn calming
7
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
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
  • 12,544 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
East Tremont Avenue & Lurting Avenue, 5,790

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 25,077 residents in Morris Park, about 25,100 per square mile.

  • 9,722 homes, 2020 Census
  • 222 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,594 residential lots hold buildings from 1940 or earlier, and 49% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
2.2 acres of Loreto Playground, as NYC Parks maps it within Morris Park

Streets and trees

Trees
4,356 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Morris Park Avenue, with 18 of the area's 179
Height above sea level
From 20 feet at Pelham Parkway North & Tiemann Avenue to 108 feet at Pelham Parkway North & Esplanade
Honorary street names
10 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 13 schools and one library in Morris Park.

Public schools
4
Charter and private schools
9
Library
Morris Park Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 407 major felonies at places in Morris Park.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Morris Park

  • 358 major felonies in 2024
  • 969 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Morris Park, the NYPD recorded another 72 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 19.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Morris Park.

Map of Morris Park: 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 Morris Park, 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 Morris Park, most about 1,250 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 Morris Park 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 Morris Park and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
49th
Major felonies recorded at places in Morris Park, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 137 major felonies at places in Morris Park, against 173 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.