Brook Avenue & East 157th Street

Brook Avenue and East 157th Street meet at a three-way junction in Melrose, Bronx. The corner is also named Jose “Chema” Soto Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 405 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Centro Cultural Rincon Criollo is 70 feet away, and P.S. 29 Ballfield is 1,190 feet away. The nearest subway, 3 Av-149 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 31 public places and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
3 Av-149 St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
3 Av/E 157 St · Bx15
Within a walk
31 places
8 gardens, 5 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brook Avenue & East 157th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 3 Av-149 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 3 Av-149 St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    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. Jackson Av 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Una Raza, Un Mundo, Universo (One Race, One World, One Universe)” (1996) by José Ortega at the 3 Av-149 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/E 157 St, 290 feet away, for the Bx15.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/E 157 St Bx15
    290 feet
    Bx15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brook Ave & E 157 St 21 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at Alexander Avenue & Major Deegan Expressway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 390 East 161st Street Gas station
    0.5 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 four crashes at this corner, the median for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 405 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,312th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 254 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10451
Community board
Bronx Community Board 1
City Council district
17
Police precinct
40
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Melrose
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jose “Chema” Soto Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,700 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 1991 and 2009.

Since 2014 at least 76 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 89 trees within 330 feet.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jose “Chema” Soto Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and March 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brook Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Brook Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of East 157th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of East 157th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 public places.

  • 8 gardens
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bronx Sky Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    380 feet
  2. NYC Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (Aeci) School
    660 feet
  3. East 156 Daycare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    690 feet
Show all 8
  1. Northside Center for Child Development - Bronx Early Head Start Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,030 feet
  2. Brilla Veritas Charter School
    1,230 feet
  3. Boricua College - Bronx College
    1,240 feet
  4. P.S. 157 Grove Hill School
    1,280 feet
  5. The Salvation Army Bronx Citadel Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Flynn Playground
    60 feet
  2. Centro Cultural Rincon Criollo Garden
    70 feet
  3. Latinos Unidos Garden
    830 feet
Show all 13
  1. Vogue Community Garden
    890 feet
  2. Rays of Sunshine Community Garden (Family Group Garden) Garden
    950 feet
  3. El Batey Borincano Garden
    980 feet
  4. La Isla USA Garden
    1,070 feet
  5. Rainbow Garden of Life and Health Garden
    1,130 feet
  6. P.S. 29 Ballfield Playground
    1,190 feet
  7. Jardin la Roca Garden
    1,220 feet
  8. O'Neill Triangle Park
    1,230 feet
  9. Yolanda García Park
    1,300 feet
  10. Grove Hill Playground
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at La Central Public space
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Casita Rincon Criollo Listed historic place
    130 feet
  2. Reformed Church of Melrose Listed historic place
    830 feet
  3. Bronx Borough Courthouse Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Peters and Pauls Church House of worship
    450 feet

Fire and police

  1. 42nd Precinct Police station
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    530 feet
  2. ALDI Supermarket
    710 feet
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 14 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brook Avenue or East 157th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.