Boston Road & Bristow Street

Boston Road and Bristow Street meet at a three-way junction in Crotona Park East, Bronx. The corner is also named Love, Power and Grace Church Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. P.S. 134 George F. Bristow is 990 feet away. The nearest subway, Freeman St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Freeman St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
Boston Rd/Prospect Av · Bx21
Within a walk
22 places
11 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Boston Road & Bristow Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Freeman 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. 174 St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The El” (2007) by Daniel Hauben at the Freeman St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Boston Rd/Prospect Av, 280 feet away, for the Bx21.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Boston Rd/Prospect Av Bx21
    280 feet
    Bx21

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx21 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 37 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Boston Rd & Prospect Ave 19 docks in all
    510 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Cross Bronx Expressway & Fulton Avenue, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1365 Boston Road Gas station
    1,120 feet
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10460
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
15 and 17 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crotona Park East
Elevation
78 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Love, Power and Grace Church Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2026 (Local Law 48 of 2026).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 269 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Love, Power and Grace Church Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Boston Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Bristow Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Bristow Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Puerto Rican Family Institute Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    650 feet
  2. P.S. 134 George F. Bristow School
    990 feet
  3. Little Scholars Early Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet
Show all 5
  1. E.S.M.T- I.S. 190 School
    1,250 feet
  2. P.S. 061 Francisco Oller School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Crotona Park
    750 feet
  2. Martin Van Buren Playground
    930 feet
  3. Cordelia’s Garden
    1,160 feet
Show all 6
  1. Model T Community Garden
    1,200 feet
  2. Concrete Dreams Community Garden
    1,250 feet
  3. Boxcar Playground (6) Playground
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and ten 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 of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Boston Road or Bristow Street.

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