Barnes Avenue & East 229th Street

Barnes Avenue and East 229th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Wakefield-Woodlawn, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 492 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Wakefield Library is 1,180 feet away. The nearest subway, 225 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
225 St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
1,140 feet
White Plains Rd/E 228 St · Bx39
Within a walk
13 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Barnes Avenue & East 229th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 225 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 225 St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 233 St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Universal City” (2006) by Nicky Enright at the 225 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is White Plains Rd/E 228 St, 1,140 feet away, for the Bx39.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. White Plains Rd/E 228 St Bx39
    1,140 feet
    Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Bronx Boulevard, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 836 East 233rd Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1250 East 229th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 3305 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six crashes at this corner, more 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 February 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, August 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 492 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,196th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 229 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10466
Community board
Bronx Community Board 12
City Council district
11 and 12 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
47
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Wakefield-Woodlawn
Elevation
164 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1957.

Since 2014 at least 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Barnes Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Barnes Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of East 229th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 229th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Lois Campbell & Yates Day Care Pre-K
    260 feet
  2. Northeast Bronx Day Care Center Preschool
    870 feet
  3. Academy for Scholarship and Entrepreneurship: a College Board School
    1,210 feet
Show all 6
  1. New World High School
    1,210 feet
  2. The Bronxwood Preparatory Academy School
    1,210 feet
  3. North Bronx National Council of Negro Women Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rienzi Playground
    1,210 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 15 Ambulance station
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Wakefield Library
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Barnes Avenue or East 229th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, 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.