Boston Road & East 168th Street

Boston Road and East 168th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Morrisania, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Marie Brooks Community Garden is 560 feet away, and Bronxcare Hospital Center is 980 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Boston Rd/E 168 St, is 130 feet away for the Bx21, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 40 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Boston Rd/E 168 St · Bx21
Within a walk
40 places
14 religious buildings, 11 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Boston Road & East 168th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Boston Rd/E 168 St, 130 feet away, for the Bx21.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Boston Rd/E 168 St Bx21
    130 feet
    Bx21

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx21 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Boston Rd & E 167 St 21 docks in all
    670 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Cross Bronx Expressway & Fulton Avenue, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1365 Boston Road Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2020

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
95 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • 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.

Since 2014 at least 147 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and June 2020; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Boston Road

  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 8AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Boston Road

  • Ambulances only 2 signs AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of East 168th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of East 168th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 29 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Free Classical. They were mostly built between 1900 and 1902.

  1. Morris High School Outbuilding Designated landmark
    620 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 40 public places.

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 11 schools
  • 5 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New Covenant Christian Church School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    310 feet
  2. NYC Autism Charter School Bronx School
    810 feet
  3. Urban Scholars Community School
    810 feet
Show all 13
  1. Harriet Tubman Charter School Junior Academy School
    970 feet
  2. Mott Hall Charter School
    970 feet
  3. P.S. 063 Author's Academy School
    970 feet
  4. Bronx International High School
    1,140 feet
  5. High School for Violin and Dance School
    1,140 feet
  6. Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies School · listed historic place
    1,140 feet
  7. My First Step Enrichment Program 2 Pre-K
    1,300 feet
  8. Bronx Career and College Preparatory High School
    1,300 feet
  9. Bronx Latin School
    1,300 feet
  10. Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Youth Village Playground
    240 feet
  2. Marie Brooks Community Garden
    560 feet
  3. McKinley Square
    630 feet
Show all 9
  1. Genesis Community Garden
    850 feet
  2. Beatty Plaza
    950 feet
  3. Hines Park
    1,160 feet
  4. Hines Park Playground
    1,170 feet
  5. Rev Lena Irons Unity Park
    1,300 feet
  6. Estella Diggs Park
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 26 Ambulance station
    670 feet
  2. Bronxcare Hospital Center Hospital
    980 feet
  3. Bronxcare Special Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Morrisania Library Landmark
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    710 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and 27 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Boston Road or East 168th Street.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.