Pelham Gardens

Neighborhood · Bronx

Pelham Gardens lies in the northeast Bronx just north of Pelham Parkway, with East Gun Hill Road along its northern and eastern sides.

  • 1.08 square miles
  • 29,402 residents, 2020 Census
  • 204 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 9 bus routes

It is named for Thomas Pell, who bought land here from the Siwanoy people in 1654. Building began in earnest in the 1920s and was followed by a boom in the 1950s, leaving streets of mostly one-family houses mixed with two- and three-family homes and small apartment buildings. Along its southern edge runs the Bronx and Pelham Parkway, built in the late 19th century to connect Bronx Park with Pelham Bay Park.

Sources: Pelham Gardens, Bronx (Wikipedia); Pelham Bay Park (NYC Parks); Pelham Parkway (NYC Parks); About (Bronx Community Board 11).

Map

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Pelham Gardens borders six areas, and Waring Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 30 of 204.

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  • Pelham Gardens
  • 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

  • Gun Hill Rd lines 5 accessible
  • Pelham Pkwy lines 5

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on nine routes stop in or at the edge of Pelham Gardens.

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

Local bus routes

  • Bx8
  • Bx25
  • Bx26
  • Bx28
  • Bx30
  • Bx31
  • Bx38
  • T113

Express bus route

  • BxM10

Safety record

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

  • 599 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 2.9 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 47 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 17 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
16
Leading pedestrian intervals
10
Turn calming
2
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 69 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 24,143 school-zone speed camera tickets at 23 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 29,402 residents in Pelham Gardens, about 27,200 per square mile.

  • 9,951 homes, 2020 Census
  • 201 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,963 residential lots hold buildings from 1950 or earlier, and 21% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
5.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Burns Playground (1.7 acres), Allerton Playground (1.6 acres) and Givan Square (1.2 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,910 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
Waring Avenue, with 30 of the area's 204
Height above sea level
From 13 feet at Waring Avenue & Wickham Avenue to 142 feet at Laconia Avenue & Allerton Avenue
Honorary street names
2 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists seven schools in Pelham Gardens.

Public schools
4
Charter and private schools
3

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 402 major felonies at places in Pelham Gardens.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Pelham Gardens

  • 398 major felonies in 2024
  • 942 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Pelham Gardens, the NYPD recorded another 131 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 18.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Pelham Gardens.

Map of Pelham Gardens: 19 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 Pelham Gardens, 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 Pelham Gardens, 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 Pelham Gardens 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 Pelham Gardens and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
49th (most of the area), 47th
Major felonies recorded at places in Pelham Gardens, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 174 major felonies at places in Pelham Gardens, against 188 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.