Bronx Boulevard & Nereid Avenue

Bronx Boulevard and Nereid Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Wakefield-Woodlawn, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 762 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Carpenter Avenue Community Garden is 890 feet away. The nearest subway, Nereid Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and eight places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nereid Av
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Nereid Av/Carpenter Av · Bx16
Within a walk
3 places
1 garden, 1 playground and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bronx Boulevard & Nereid Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nereid Av, 1,150 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Nereid Av 2, 5
    1,150 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Leaf of Life” (2006) by Noel Copeland at the Nereid Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nereid Av/Carpenter Av, 170 feet away, for the Bx16.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nereid Av/Carpenter Av Bx16
    170 feet
    Bx16

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Bronx Boulevard, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 610 Nereid Avenue Gas station
    230 feet
  2. 4769 White Plains Road Charging for electric cars, seven Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 3305 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 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.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 762 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 933rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 397 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10470
Community board
Bronx Community Board 12
City Council district
11
Police precinct
47
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Wakefield-Woodlawn
Elevation
130 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1942.

Since 2014 at least 90 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bronx Boulevard

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-3PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Bronx Boulevard

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCKS LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-3PM

North side of Nereid Avenue

  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Carpenter Avenue Community Garden
    890 feet
  2. Wakefield Playground
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    1,250 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight 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 Bronx Boulevard or Nereid Avenue.

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