Tremont

Neighborhood · Bronx

East Tremont Avenue is the spine of Tremont, a Bronx neighborhood that reaches east to Southern Boulevard and south to the Cross Bronx Expressway.

  • 0.57 square miles
  • 32,150 residents, 2020 Census
  • 138 street corners
  • 7 bus routes

Its name comes from a village that grew up around a New York and Harlem Railroad station opened in 1841; in the 1850s postmaster Hiram Tarbox named the village Tremont for three local hills: Fairmount, Mount Eden and Mount Hope. German farmers who left Europe after the revolutions of 1848 were among the early newcomers, followed by Irish, Italian and Jewish families. The red-brick Tremont branch library on Washington Avenue, a Carnegie library designed by Carrère and Hastings, has served the area since 1905.

Sources: East Tremont, Bronx (Wikipedia); Mount Hope Garden (NYC Parks); Tremont Library (New York Public Library).

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Tremont borders six areas, and East Tremont Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 15 of 138.

Street map of Tremont, Bronx, outlined among Belmont, Mount Hope, West Farms and Crotona Park, with Walter Gladwin Park.BelmontWest FarmsCrotona Park EastCrotona ParkClaremont Village-Claremont (East)Mount Hope
  • Tremont
  • 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 seven routes stop in or at the edge of Tremont.

  • 7 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx9
  • Bx15
  • Bx17
  • Bx19
  • Bx36
  • Bx40
  • Bx42

Safety record

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

  • 1,456 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 10.6 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 6 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 46 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
44
Accessible pedestrian signals
25
Turn calming
6
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.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 5,927 school-zone speed camera tickets at ten corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Crotona Avenue & Crotona Park North, 2,502

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 32,150 residents in Tremont, about 56,400 per square mile.

  • 11,939 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,878 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,380 residential lots hold buildings from 1975 or earlier, and 47% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
31.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Walter Gladwin Park (15 acres), Quarry Ballfields (4.4 acres) and Bathgate Playground (2.6 acres)
Designated landmarks
The New York Public Library's Tremont Branch and the Engine Company 46/Hook & Ladder Company 17

Streets and trees

Trees
2,895 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and Japanese zelkova
Street with the most corners
East Tremont Avenue, with 15 of the area's 138
Height above sea level
From 41 feet at Washington Avenue & East 175th Street to 123 feet at East 175th Street & Marmion Avenue
Honorary street names
4 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 25 schools and one library in Tremont.

Public schools
19
Charter and private schools
6
Library
Tremont Library

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 12 bike-share stations stand in Tremont.

  • 12 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 732 major felonies at places in Tremont.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Tremont

  • 728 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,259 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Tremont, the NYPD recorded another 229 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 29.9 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Tremont.

Police precinct
48th
Major felonies recorded at places in Tremont, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 330 major felonies at places in Tremont, against 364 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.