Bronxwood Avenue & East 229th Street

Bronxwood Avenue and East 229th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Wakefield-Woodlawn, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. The Bronxwood Preparatory Academy is 340 feet away, and Bethany Church of the Nazarene is 1,240 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 226 St/Bronxwood Av, is 940 feet away for the Bx8, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bronx River Parkway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
E 226 St/Bronxwood Av · Bx8
Within a walk
13 places
6 religious buildings, 4 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bronxwood Avenue & East 229th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 226 St/Bronxwood Av, 940 feet away, for the Bx8.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 226 St/Bronxwood Av Bx8
    940 feet
    Bx8

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bronxwood Avenue.

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Bronx Boulevard, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 836 East 233rd Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1250 East 229th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 3305 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2020
  • Turn calming, July 2025
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10466
Community board
Bronx Community Board 12
City Council district
11 and 12 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
47
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Wakefield-Woodlawn
Elevation
168 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1960.

Since 2014 at least 21 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2013 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bronxwood Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Bronxwood Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of East 229th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of East 229th Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites

Schools and child care

  1. Academy for Scholarship and Entrepreneurship: a College Board School
    340 feet
  2. New World High School
    340 feet
  3. The Bronxwood Preparatory Academy School
    340 feet
Show all 7
  1. Bambi Early Learning Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    690 feet
  2. Lois Campbell & Yates Day Care Pre-K
    1,130 feet
  3. Creative Minds Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet
  4. Our Lady of Grace School
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Grace Church House of worship
    940 feet
  2. Bethany Church of the Nazarene House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gitto Farmer's Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bronxwood Avenue or East 229th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.