Mount Hope

Neighborhood · Bronx

High ground gave Mount Hope its name, and the area sits in the west-central Bronx, centered on Tremont Avenue.

  • 0.45 square miles
  • 49,099 residents, 2020 Census
  • 103 street corners
  • 5 subway stations
  • 9 bus routes

The land was mostly farms until 1841, when the New York and Harlem Railroad opened a station that soon became the heart of a village, and in the 1850s postmaster Hiram Tarbox named that village Tremont for three local hills: Fairmount, Mount Eden and Mount Hope. Building in the Bronx gathered pace after the Interborough Rapid Transit subway opened in 1904, and the Morris Avenue Historic District, designated in 1986, keeps a uniformly planned block of 35 two-family houses, many with curved bow fronts, built between 1906 and 1910.

Sources: Mount Hope Garden (NYC Parks); Morris Avenue Historic District Designation Report (LP-1392), Designation List 185, July 15, 1986 (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Tremont, Bronx (Wikipedia).

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Mount Hope borders six areas.

Street map of Mount Hope, Bronx, outlined among University Heights (South)-Morris Heights, Tremont, Fordham Heights and Mount Eden-Claremont (West), with its five subway stations and Richman (Echo) Park.Fordham HeightsBelmontTremontClaremont Village-Claremont (East)Mount Eden-Claremont (West)University Heights (South)-Morris Heights
  • Mount Hope
  • 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

  • 182-183 Sts lines B D
  • Burnside Av lines 4
  • Tremont Av lines B D accessible
  • 176 St lines 4
  • 174-175 Sts lines B D

Getting around

Five subway stations and buses on nine routes stop in or at the edge of Mount Hope.

  • 5 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 8 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Bx1
  • Bx2
  • Bx32
  • Bx36
  • Bx40
  • Bx41
  • Bx41-SBS
  • Bx42

Express bus route

  • BxM4

Safety record

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

  • 1,933 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 18.8 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 3 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 36 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
25
Accessible pedestrian signals
24
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
4
Safety Improvement Projects
3
Turn calming
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
  • 3,762 school-zone speed camera tickets at four corners
  • 11,359 bus-lane camera tickets at three corners
Most speed tickets
Webster Avenue & East 176th Street, 1,747
Most bus-lane tickets
Webster Avenue & Ittner Place, 10,583

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 49,099 residents in Mount Hope, about 109,100 per square mile.

  • 16,783 homes, 2020 Census
  • 4,605 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 865 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 82% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
8.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Richman (Echo) Park (4.4 acres), Mount Hope Playground (0.7 acre) and Cleopatra Playground (0.6 acre)
Designated landmark
The Tremont Baptist Church
Historic district
Morris Avenue Historic District, wholly or partly within Mount Hope

Streets and trees

Trees
2,261 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, Japanese zelkova and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Anthony Avenue, with 13 of the area's 103
Height above sea level
From 30 feet at Webster Avenue & East 175th Street to 118 feet at East 176th Street & Monroe Avenue
Honorary street names
7 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists ten schools in Mount Hope.

Public schools
9
Charter or private school
1

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 17 bike-share stations stand in Mount Hope.

  • 17 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 890 major felonies at places in Mount Hope.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Mount Hope

  • 874 major felonies in 2024
  • 3,431 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Mount Hope, the NYPD recorded another 192 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 22.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Mount Hope.

Map of Mount Hope: 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 Mount Hope, 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 Mount Hope, 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 Mount Hope 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 Mount Hope and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
46th (most of the area), 48th
Major felonies recorded at places in Mount Hope, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 476 major felonies at places in Mount Hope, against 425 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.