Boston Road & East 164th Street

Boston Road and East 164th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Morrisania, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Charlton-Thompson Garden is 310 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Boston Rd/E 165 St, is 220 feet away for the Bx21, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 36 public places, 19 of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

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Boston Road & East 164th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Boston Rd/E 165 St, 220 feet away, for the Bx21.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Boston Rd/E 165 St Bx21 · Shelter
    220 feet
    Bx21
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx21 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 Ave & E 163 St 27 docks in all
    580 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 481 East 163rd Street Gas station
    1,100 feet
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10456
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
17
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morrisania
Elevation
59 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1982 and 2014.

Since 2014 at least 368 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

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

East side of Boston Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of East 164th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of East 164th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 public places.

  • 19 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 parks
  • 3 schools
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ace Institute of Technology Trade or language school
    500 feet
  2. P.S. 146 Edward Collins School
    590 feet
  3. Sharon Baptist Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    720 feet
Show all 7
  1. Sunshine Devel - Sharon Baptist HS School
    730 feet
  2. Little Scholars Early Development Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    890 feet
  3. Owl Early Intervention Program Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    900 feet
  4. P.S. X140 the Eagle School
    970 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Charlton-Thompson Garden
    310 feet
  2. William Hooper Garden (Jacquline Denise Davis Garden) Garden
    360 feet
  3. Franklin Triangle
    820 feet
Show all 8
  1. Franklin Memorial Garden
    890 feet
  2. Dunbar Playground
    980 feet
  3. Hilton White Playground
    1,150 feet
  4. O'Neill Triangle Park
    1,230 feet
  5. Hines Park
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Saxe Embroidery Company Building Listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. Bronx Borough Courthouse Listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Gospel Hill Baptist Church House of worship
    300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    740 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, 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.