Barnes Avenue & Lydig Avenue

Barnes Avenue and Lydig Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, Bronx. The corner is also named Dr. Paula Neyman 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. Young Voices Academy of the Bronx is 120 feet away. The nearest subway, Morris Park, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them schools, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Morris Park
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 5
Nearest bus stop
1,080 feet
White Plains Rd/Lydig Av · Bx39
Within a walk
8 places
3 schools, 2 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Barnes Avenue & Lydig Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Morris Park, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Morris Park 5
    0.3 miles
    5

Next trains at this station

Eastchester
1 line
  1. 5 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Pelham Pkwy 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is White Plains Rd/Lydig Av, 1,080 feet away, for the Bx39.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. White Plains Rd/Lydig Av Bx39
    1,080 feet
    Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 25 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Pelham Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2090 Bronxdale Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2071 White Plains Road Charging for electric cars, 22 Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.3 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10462
Community board
Bronx Community Board 11
City Council district
13
Police precinct
49
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pelham Parkway-Van Nest
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dr. Paula Neyman Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,900 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 1929 and 1952.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dr. Paula Neyman Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 44 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Barnes Avenue

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Barnes Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Lydig Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Lydig Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 208328, 212015 and 214585.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Young Voices Academy of the Bronx School
    120 feet
  2. Lil Inventors Child Care Wallace Avenue Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet
  3. Companion SVCS - Assisting Wellness Trade or language school
    1,130 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bronx High School for the Visual Arts School
    1,130 feet
  2. P.S. 105 Sen Abraham Bernstein School
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library
    220 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 20 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Barnes Avenue or Lydig Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.