Pelham Bay Park

Park · Bronx

Pelham Bay Park fills the northeast corner of the Bronx along Long Island Sound and, at 2,772 acres, is New York City's largest park, more than three times the size of Central Park.

  • 3.56 square miles
  • 51 street corners
  • 12 bus routes

In 1654 Thomas Pell bought some 50,000 acres from the Siwanoy, including the park's land, which became known as Pelham Manor after a 1666 royal charter; it became a city park in 1888 and is run by NYC Parks. In the 1930s the city linked Hunter Island and Rodman's Neck with dredged sand to make Orchard Beach, and the park also holds the Bartow-Pell Mansion of 1842, two golf courses and about 13 miles of shoreline.

Sources: Pelham Bay Park (NYC Parks); Pelham Bay Park (Wikipedia).

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Pelham Bay Park borders five areas, and Bruckner Expressway holds more of its corners than any other street, 17 of 51.

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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 12 routes stop in or at the edge of Pelham Bay Park.

  • 11 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Bx5
  • Bx12
  • Bx12-SBS
  • Bx23
  • Bx24
  • Bx26
  • Bx28
  • Bx29
  • Bx30
  • Q50
  • T103

Express bus route

  • BxM8

Safety record

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

  • 272 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 5.3 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 36 corners with a clean record

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

Accessible pedestrian signals
6
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
2045.7 acres of Pelham Bay Park, as NYC Parks maps it within the area's boundary
Designated landmark
The Orchard Beach Bathhouse

Streets and trees

Trees
4,565 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, sweetgum and northern red oak
Street with the most corners
Bruckner Expressway, with 17 of the area's 51

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Pelham Bay Park: American Boy (1932).

  • 1 work of public art

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.