Bronx Park East & Thwaites Place

Bronx Park East and Thwaites Place meet at a three-way junction in Allerton, Bronx, at the edge of Bronx Park. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Waring Playground is 710 feet away. The nearest subway, Pelham Pkwy, is about four minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Pelham Pkwy
1,100 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
930 feet
Boston Rd/Thwaites Pl · Bx30, BxM11
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bronx Park East & Thwaites Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Pelham Pkwy, 1,100 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Pelham Pkwy 2, 5
    1,100 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 “Back to the Garden” (2007) by Tomie Arai at the Pelham Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Boston Rd/Thwaites Pl, 930 feet away, for the Bx30 and BxM11.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Boston Rd/Thwaites Pl Bx30, BxM11
    930 feet
    Bx30 BxM11

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx30 …
  2. BxM11 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Bronx Park East & Bronx River Parkway, 400 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 2290 White Plains Road Gas station
    1,310 feet
  2. 2071 White Plains Road Charging for electric cars, 22 Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10467
Community board
Bronx Community Board 11
City Council district
15
Police precinct
49
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Allerton; the corner is on the edge of the Bronx Park area
Elevation
82 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,600 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 1931 and 1964.

Since 2014 at least 56 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 114 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2022 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bronx Park East

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Thwaites Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Thwaites Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 096 Richard Rodgers School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bronx Park
    70 feet
  2. Waring Playground
    710 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ghana United Methodist Church House of worship
    280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Choice Market Supermarket
    970 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bronx Park East or Thwaites Place.

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