Aqueduct Avenue East & West 181st Street

Aqueduct Avenue East and West 181st Street meet at a five-way junction in University Heights (South)-Morris Heights, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Aqueduct Walk is 30 feet away, and Walton Playground is 1,290 feet away. The nearest subway, Burnside Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 4. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them schools, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Burnside Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 4
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
University Av/W 181 St · Bx3
Within a walk
17 places
5 schools, 4 playgrounds and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Aqueduct Avenue East & West 181st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Burnside Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Burnside Av 4
    0.4 miles
    4

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 4 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 4 …

Also within a walk

  1. 183 St 4
    0.4 miles
    4

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “How to get to the moon...” (2008) by Laura Battle at the Burnside Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is University Av/W 181 St, 220 feet away, for the Bx3.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. University Av/W 181 St Bx3
    220 feet
    Bx3

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on West 181st Street.

  • 36 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Grand Ave & W 181 St 19 docks in all
    540 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at Cedar Avenue & West 179th Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2340 Jerome Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2478 Jerome Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, July 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10453
Community board
Bronx Community Board 5
City Council district
14
Police precinct
46
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
University Heights (South)-Morris Heights
Elevation
131 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,400 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 1921 and 1959.

Since 2014 at least 56 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the hawthorn and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2015 and July 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Aqueduct Avenue East

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of West 181st Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 181st Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 college
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 091 Bronx School
    440 feet
  2. Bronx Community College
    480 feet
  3. Hope Academy of the Bronx School
    970 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 291 School
    1,040 feet
  2. P.S. X015 Institute for Environmental Learning School
    1,040 feet
  3. I.S. 206 Ann Mersereau School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Aqueduct Walk Park
    30 feet
  2. Aqueduct Lands Playground
    60 feet
  3. Grand Playground
    550 feet
Show all 6
  1. Davidson Playground
    1,040 feet
  2. Walton Park
    1,210 feet
  3. Walton Playground
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Francis Martin Library
    270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. University Heights Presbyterian Church House of worship
    380 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  2. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Pioneer Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Aqueduct Avenue East, Aqueduct Walk Bike Path or West 181st 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.