Bronx Park East & Lydig Avenue

Bronx Park East and Lydig Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, Bronx, at the edge of Bronx Park. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 843 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Ben Abrams Playground is 130 feet away. The nearest subway, Pelham Pkwy, is about four minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them playgrounds, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Pelham Pkwy
1,170 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
490 feet
White Plains Rd/Lydig Av · Bx39
Within a walk
4 places
2 playgrounds, 1 park and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bronx Park East & Lydig Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Pelham Pkwy, 1,170 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Pelham Pkwy 2, 5
    1,170 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Bronx Park East 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Back to the Garden” (2007) by Tomie Arai at the Pelham Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is White Plains Rd/Lydig Av, 490 feet away, for the Bx39.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. White Plains Rd/Lydig Av Bx39
    490 feet
    Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 52 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Boston Road & Bronx River Parkway, 1,070 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 2090 Bronxdale Avenue Gas station
    940 feet
  2. 2071 White Plains Road Charging for electric cars, 22 Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    880 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 843 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 865th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 303 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10462
Community board
Bronx Community Board 11
City Council district
13 and 15 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
49
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pelham Parkway-Van Nest; the corner is on the edge of the Bronx Park area
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 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 1929 and 1938.

Trees

NYC Parks records 105 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bronx Park East

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Lydig Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Lydig Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 213204.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 105 Sen Abraham Bernstein School
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bronx Park
    90 feet
  2. Ben Abrams Playground
    130 feet
  3. Brady Playground
    970 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    630 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    800 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    920 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  3. Food Choice Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    680 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and 21 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bronx Park East or Lydig 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.