Morrisania

Neighborhood · Bronx

Morrisania, with Third Avenue as its main thoroughfare, takes its name from the Manor of Morrisania, the 2,000-acre estate of the Morris family.

  • 0.50 square miles
  • 37,607 residents, 2020 Census
  • 108 street corners
  • 9 bus routes

The family included Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Gouverneur Morris, known as the penman of the Constitution, and the town of Morrisania became part of New York City in 1874. Rows of Free Classical houses begun in 1900 line the streets around Morris High School, completed in 1904 as the first major public high school in the Bronx, and together they form the Morris High School Historic District, designated in 1982.

Sources: Morris High School Historic District Designation Report (LP-1258) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Morris High School Historic District (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); The Bronx (The Bronx County Historical Society); Morrisania, Bronx (Wikipedia).

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Morrisania borders six areas, and Boston Road holds more of its corners than any other street, 15 of 108.

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  • Morrisania
  • 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 nine routes stop in or at the edge of Morrisania.

  • 9 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx6
  • Bx6-SBS
  • Bx13
  • Bx15
  • Bx17
  • Bx21
  • Bx35
  • Bx41
  • Bx41-SBS

Safety record

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

  • 1,170 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 10.8 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 2 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 50 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
38
Accessible pedestrian signals
31
Turn calming
4
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 5,765 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 201 bus-lane camera tickets at one corner
Most speed tickets
Park Avenue & Brook Avenue, 2,402
Most bus-lane tickets
3rd Avenue & East 163rd Street, 201

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 37,607 residents in Morrisania, about 75,200 per square mile.

  • 14,048 homes, 2020 Census
  • 3,931 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,098 residential lots hold buildings from 1925 or earlier, and 56% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Forest, McKinley and Morrisania Air Rights developments lie wholly or partly within Morrisania.

Forest
Within Morrisania
McKinley
Within Morrisania
Morrisania Air Rights
Partly within Morrisania

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
12.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Behagen Playground (3.3 acres), Melrose Commons Park (1.4 acres) and Dunbar Playground (1.3 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Bronx Borough Courthouse, the New York Public Library's Morrisania Branch and the Second Battery Armory
Historic district
Morris High School Historic District, wholly or partly within Morrisania

Streets and trees

Trees
2,433 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and maidenhair tree
Street with the most corners
Boston Road, with 15 of the area's 108
Height above sea level
From 19 feet at Brook Avenue & East 164th Street to 95 feet at Boston Road & East 168th Street
Honorary street names
8 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 19 schools and one library in Morrisania.

Public schools
12
Charter and private schools
7
Library
Morrisania Library

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 11 bike-share stations stand in Morrisania.

  • 11 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 736 major felonies at places in Morrisania.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Morrisania

  • 794 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,687 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Morrisania, the NYPD recorded another 264 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 26.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Morrisania.

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

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 333 major felonies at places in Morrisania, against 367 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.