Boston Road & Home Street

Boston Road and Home Street meet at a three-way junction in Morrisania, Bronx. The corner lies on the edge of the Morris High School Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Morris High School Outbuilding stands 170 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Boston Rd/E 168 St, is 390 feet away for the Bx21, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 36 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
Boston Rd/E 168 St · Bx21
Within a walk
36 places
14 religious buildings, 10 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Boston Road & Home Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Boston Rd/E 168 St, 390 feet away, for the Bx21.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx21 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Cross Bronx Expressway & Fulton Avenue, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1365 Boston Road Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

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
90 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 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 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and January 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Boston Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Home Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Home Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Morris High School Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 61 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Free Classical. They were mostly built between 1900 and 1903.

  1. Morris High School Outbuilding Designated landmark
    170 feet
  2. Second Battery Armory Designated landmark
    530 feet
  3. Trinity Episcopal Church of Morrisania Rectory Designated landmark
    720 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 10 schools
  • 4 gardens
  • 3 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New Covenant Christian Church School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    220 feet
  2. Bronx International High School
    640 feet
  3. High School for Violin and Dance School
    640 feet
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  1. Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies School · landmark · listed historic place
    640 feet
  2. Harriet Tubman Charter School Junior Academy School
    890 feet
  3. South Bronx Classical Charter School III School
    1,030 feet
  4. Bronx Career and College Preparatory High School
    1,050 feet
  5. Bronx Latin School
    1,050 feet
  6. Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School
    1,050 feet
  7. NYC Autism Charter School Bronx School
    1,180 feet
  8. Urban Scholars Community School
    1,180 feet
  9. 3467 Ready, Set, Learn L L C Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Youth Village Playground
    60 feet
  2. Marie Brooks Community Garden
    220 feet
  3. Hines Park
    640 feet
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  1. Hines Park Playground
    640 feet
  2. Estella Diggs Park
    780 feet
  3. Genesis Community Garden
    850 feet
  4. Franklin Memorial Garden
    1,010 feet
  5. McKinley Square
    1,160 feet
  6. William Hooper Garden (Jacquline Denise Davis Garden) Garden
    1,280 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 26 Ambulance station
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 17 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Boston Road or Home 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.