Boston Road & Ely Avenue

Boston Road and Ely Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 939 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Baychester Academy is 650 feet away. The nearest subway, Baychester Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the 5. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Baychester Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 5
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Boston Rd/Wickham Av · Bx30
Within a walk
4 places
2 religious buildings, 1 nursing home or hospice and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Boston Road & Ely Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Baychester Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Baychester Av 5
    0.3 miles
    5

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Boston Rd/Wickham Av, 380 feet away, for the Bx30.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Boston Rd/Wickham Av Bx30
    380 feet
    Bx30

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx30 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the New England Thruway southbound at Baychester Avenue & East 222nd Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3800 Boston Road Gas station
    1,020 feet
  2. 1250 East 229th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 3329 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2022
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 939 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 808th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 658 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on Boston Road939517
Northbound on Ely Avenue–141
Total939658

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10466
Community board
Bronx Community Board 12
City Council district
12
Police precinct
47
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester
Elevation
95 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1987.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2015 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Boston Road

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Boston Road

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

East side of Ely Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ely Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Baychester Academy School
    650 feet

Health care

  1. Split Rock Rehabilitation and Health Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Palm Tree Marketplace Supermarket
    120 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    970 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and six food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Boston Road or Ely Avenue.

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