3rd Avenue & East 173rd Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and East 173rd Street is in Claremont Village-Claremont (East), Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Icahn Charter School 6 is 290 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 3 Av/E 173 St, is 100 feet away for the Bx15, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, six of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
1,260 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
3 Av/E 173 St · Bx15
Within a walk
19 places
6 religious buildings, 6 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & East 173rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/E 173 St, 100 feet away, for the Bx15.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue and East 173rd Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 Ave & E 174 St 35 docks in all
    530 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound, 1,260 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 4056 3rd Avenue Gas station
    1,080 feet
  2. 2300 Southern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.5 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 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
63 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

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

West side of 3rd Avenue

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

North side of East 173rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 173rd Street

  • No parking 4 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
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Future Kiddie 4 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    190 feet
  2. Icahn Charter School 6 School
    290 feet
  3. P.S./M.S. 004 Crotona Park West School
    290 feet
Show all 8
  1. Bronx Preparatory Charter School
    870 feet
  2. Tremont Monterey Day Care Site I I Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
  3. Mott Hall Bronx High School
    1,220 feet
  4. Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science, The School
    1,220 feet
  5. Validus Preparatory Academy School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Crotona Park
    320 feet
  2. Bathgate Playground
    350 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 18 Ambulance station
    920 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Crotona Park Recreation Center Landmark
    380 feet

Fire and police

  1. Rescue 3 Fire station
    770 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and seven 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 173rd 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.