Beach Avenue & Merrill Street

Beach Avenue and Merrill Street meet at a three-way junction in Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Bronx Little School is 860 feet away. The nearest subway, St Lawrence Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them schools, and eight places to eat. About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1927 and 1930, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
St Lawrence Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Cross Bronx Expwy Service Rd/Taylor Av · Q44 SBS
Within a walk
8 places
4 schools, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Beach Avenue & Merrill Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is St Lawrence Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. St Lawrence Av 6
    0.4 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Parkchester 6
    0.5 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Community (Acer rubrum, Rosa palustris, Smilax rotundifolia, Carya cordiformis),” (2011) by Alison Mortisugu at the St Lawrence Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cross Bronx Expwy Service Rd/Taylor Av, 610 feet away, for the Q44 SBS.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cross Bronx Expwy Service Rd/Taylor Av Q44 SBS
    610 feet
    Q44 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at East 177th Street & Cross Bronx Expressway at Cross Bronx Service Road N, 1,230 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1719 Cross Bronx Expressway Gas station
    1,260 feet
  2. 2300 Southern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.1 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

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
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10460
Community board
Bronx Community Board 9
City Council district
17
Police precinct
43
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,100 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 1927 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Beach Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Merrill Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Merrill Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Icahn Charter School 6 - Middle School
    750 feet
  2. Archer Elementary School
    860 feet
  3. Bronx Little School
    860 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 536 School
    860 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Wood Park
    820 feet
  2. Taylor Playground
    1,010 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Taylor Ave House of worship
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beach Avenue or Merrill Street.

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