3rd Avenue & East 172nd Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and East 172nd Street is in Claremont Village-Claremont (East), Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Bronx Preparatory Charter School is 330 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 3 Av/E 173 St, is 410 feet away for the Bx15, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
20 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
3 Av/E 173 St · Bx15
Within a walk
22 places
8 religious buildings, 7 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & East 172nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/E 173 St, 410 feet away, for the Bx15.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/E 173 St Bx15
    410 feet
    Bx15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue and East 172nd Street.

  • 33 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 Ave & E 172 St 19 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4056 3rd Avenue Gas station
    0.3 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
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 20 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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
15
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Claremont Village-Claremont (East)
Elevation
57 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of East 172nd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 172nd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Art Moderne. They were built between 1934 and 1936.

  1. Crotona Play Center Designated landmark
    570 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 fire station
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bronx Preparatory Charter School
    330 feet
  2. Bright Future Kiddie 4 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    350 feet
  3. Tremont Monterey Day Care Site I I Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    470 feet
Show all 9
  1. Mott Hall Bronx High School
    680 feet
  2. Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science, The School
    680 feet
  3. Validus Preparatory Academy School
    680 feet
  4. Icahn Charter School 6 School
    830 feet
  5. P.S./M.S. 004 Crotona Park West School
    830 feet
  6. P.S. 042 Claremont School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Crotona Park
    360 feet
  2. Bathgate Playground
    890 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 18 Ambulance station
    940 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Crotona Park Recreation Center Landmark
    870 feet

Fire and police

  1. Rescue 3 Fire station
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or East 172nd 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.