Barker Avenue & Thwaites Place

Barker Avenue and Thwaites Place meet at a four-way crossing in Allerton, Bronx. The corner is also named Elias Karmon Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Bronx Park is 450 feet away. The nearest subway, Pelham Pkwy, is about three minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Pelham Pkwy
720 feet · 3 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
550 feet
Boston Rd/Thwaites Pl · Bx30, BxM11
Within a walk
7 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Barker Avenue & Thwaites Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Pelham Pkwy, 720 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Pelham Pkwy 2, 5
    720 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Back to the Garden” (2007) by Tomie Arai at the Pelham Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Boston Rd/Thwaites Pl, 550 feet away, for the Bx30 and BxM11.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Boston Rd/Thwaites Pl Bx30, BxM11
    550 feet
    Bx30 BxM11

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx30 …
  2. BxM11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Bronx Park East & Bronx River Parkway, 750 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 2290 White Plains Road Gas station
    930 feet
  2. 2071 White Plains Road Charging for electric cars, 22 Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, August 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10467
Community board
Bronx Community Board 11
City Council district
15
Police precinct
49
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Allerton
Elevation
80 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Elias Karmon Way, a co-naming enacted on December 17, 2013 (Local Law 131 of 2013).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 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 1937 and 1962.

Since 2014 at least 71 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Elias Karmon Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

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

East side of Barker Avenue

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Barker Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Thwaites Place

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

South side of Thwaites Place

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 096 Richard Rodgers School
    810 feet
  2. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bronx Park
    450 feet
  2. Waring Playground
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Pelham Parkway Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ghana United Methodist Church House of worship
    240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Choice Market Supermarket
    590 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Barker Avenue or Thwaites Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.