3rd Avenue & East 171st Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and East 171st Street is in Claremont Village-Claremont (East), Bronx, at the edge of NYCHA's Morris II development. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Gouverneur Playground is 470 feet away, and Our Lady of Victory RC Church is 1,130 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 3 Av/Claremont Pkwy, is 410 feet away for the Bx15. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
3 Av/Claremont Pkwy · Bx15
Within a walk
27 places
9 religious buildings, 9 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & East 171st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/Claremont Pkwy, 410 feet away, for the Bx15.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/Claremont Pkwy Bx15
    410 feet
    Bx15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue.

  • 30 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 171 St & 3 Ave 24 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4056 3rd Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.6 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10457
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
16
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Claremont Village-Claremont (East)
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1960 and 1986.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Morris II development.

Since 2014 at least 2 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and March 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-5PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of East 171st Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of East 171st Street

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 9 schools
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Fort George Community Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    670 feet
  2. P.S. 042 Claremont School
    840 feet
  3. Bronx Preparatory Charter School
    930 feet
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  1. Tremont Monterey Day Care Site I I Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  2. Mott Hall Bronx High School
    1,120 feet
  3. Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science, The School
    1,120 feet
  4. Validus Preparatory Academy School
    1,120 feet
  5. Mott Hall III School
    1,190 feet
  6. P.S. 110 Theodore Schoenfeld School
    1,190 feet
  7. P.S. 055 Benjamin Franklin School
    1,280 feet
  8. Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 2 School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Flower Garden - Morris II Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    450 feet
  2. Jardin de la Familia Garden
    470 feet
  3. Gouverneur Playground
    470 feet
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  1. Crotona Park
    510 feet
  2. Playground Of The Stars Playground
    640 feet
  3. Little Claremont Playground
    830 feet
  4. Damiana Pizarro Community Garden
    940 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Pauls Episcopal Church House of worship
    670 feet
  2. Our Lady of Victory RC Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    910 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    980 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 16 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or East 171st Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.