Pelham Parkway-Van Nest

Neighborhood · Bronx

Pelham Parkway-Van Nest stretches east from Bronx Park in the east Bronx, reaching from Van Nest, beside the Amtrak tracks, north to Pelham Parkway.

  • 0.56 square miles
  • 32,425 residents, 2020 Census
  • 120 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 14 bus routes

Van Nest takes its name from a former station on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, named for the father of one of the railroad's directors, and its building lots were carved from farmland between 1892 and 1896. Pelham Parkway, officially the Bronx and Pelham Parkway, was acquired by the City in 1884 and runs 2.5 miles from Bronx Park to Pelham Bay Park, with broad center strips, a bridle path and many American elms.

Sources: Van Nest, Bronx (Wikipedia); Pelham Parkway (NYC Parks).

Map

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Pelham Parkway-Van Nest borders six areas, and Morris Park Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 18 of 120.

Street map of Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, Bronx, outlined among Morris Park, West Farms, Bronx Park and Parkchester, with its two subway stations and Matthews Muliner Playground.AllertonMorris ParkParkchesterSoundview-Bruckner-Bronx RiverWest FarmsBronx Park
  • Pelham Parkway-Van Nest
  • 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

  • Pelham Pkwy lines 2 5 accessible
  • Bronx Park East lines 2 5

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on 14 routes stop in or at the edge of Pelham Parkway-Van Nest.

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

Local bus routes

  • Bx4A
  • Bx12
  • Bx12-SBS
  • Bx21
  • Bx22
  • Bx30
  • Bx36
  • Bx39
  • Bx40
  • Bx42
  • T113
  • T117

Express bus routes

  • BxM10
  • BxM11

Safety record

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

  • 1,081 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 9.0 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 4 corners with a clean record

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

Leading pedestrian intervals
24
Accessible pedestrian signals
19
Turn calming
6
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 8,498 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 6,122 school-zone speed camera tickets at nine corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Boston Road & Pelham Parkway South, 5,589
Most speed tickets
East Tremont Avenue & Elm Drive, 2,087

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 32,425 residents in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, about 57,900 per square mile.

  • 12,032 homes, 2020 Census
  • 165 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,756 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 71% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
1.5 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Matthews Muliner Playground (1 acre) and Van Nest Park (0.4 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
2,158 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and littleleaf linden
Street with the most corners
Morris Park Avenue, with 18 of the area's 120
Height above sea level
From 26 feet at East Tremont Avenue & Morris Park Avenue to 84 feet at Wallace Avenue & Brady Avenue
Honorary street names
10 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists five schools and one library in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest.

Public schools
4
Charter or private school
1
Library
Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest: Van Nest Memorial (1926).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 511 major felonies at places in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest

  • 455 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,221 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, the NYPD recorded another 190 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 21.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest.

Map of Pelham Parkway-Van Nest: 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 Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, 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 Parkway-Van Nest, 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 Pelham Parkway-Van Nest 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 Parkway-Van Nest and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
49th (most of the area), 48th
Major felonies recorded at places in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 226 major felonies at places in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, against 257 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.