3rd Avenue & Franklin Avenue

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and Franklin Avenue is in Morrisania, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 14 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. William Hooper Garden (Jacquline Denise Davis Garden) is 490 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 3 Av/E 166 St, is 310 feet away for the Bx15, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 38 public places, 21 of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
3 Av/E 166 St · Bx15
Within a walk
38 places
21 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & Franklin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/E 166 St, 310 feet away, for the Bx15.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/E 166 St Bx15
    310 feet
    Bx15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 Ave & Franklin Ave 19 docks in all
    130 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1029 Washington Avenue Gas station
    690 feet
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2022.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 14 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,912th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10456
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
16 and 17 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morrisania
Elevation
39 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 677 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the bur oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2019 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 public places.

  • 21 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 parks
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Sunshine Devel - Sharon Baptist HS School
    130 feet
  2. Sharon Baptist Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    220 feet
  3. Little Scholars Early Development Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    240 feet
Show all 9
  1. Owl Early Intervention Program Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    710 feet
  2. P.S. 146 Edward Collins School
    990 feet
  3. Ace Institute of Technology Trade or language school
    990 feet
  4. South Bronx Classical Charter School III School
    1,150 feet
  5. South Bronx Community Charter High School
    1,190 feet
  6. 3467 Ready, Set, Learn L L C Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Franklin Triangle
    160 feet
  2. William Hooper Garden (Jacquline Denise Davis Garden) Garden
    490 feet
  3. Hines Park
    630 feet
Show all 7
  1. Estella Diggs Park
    890 feet
  2. Charlton-Thompson Garden
    970 feet
  3. Hines Park Playground
    970 feet
  4. Franklin Memorial Garden
    1,010 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Saxe Embroidery Company Building Listed historic place
    470 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Gospel Hill Baptist Church House of worship
    760 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,240 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 20 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or Franklin Avenue.

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