Brook Avenue & East 161st Street

Brook Avenue and East 161st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Morrisania, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Bronx Borough Courthouse stands 180 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Elton Av/E 161 St, is 680 feet away for the Bx6 and Bx13, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
Elton Av/E 161 St · Bx6, Bx13
Within a walk
27 places
7 religious buildings, 6 gardens and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brook Avenue & East 161st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Elton Av/E 161 St, 680 feet away, for the Bx6 and Bx13.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Elton Av/E 161 St Bx6, Bx13 · Shelter
    680 feet
    Bx6 Bx13
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx6 …
  2. Bx13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Washington Ave & E 163 St 23 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 481 East 163rd Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2022.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10451
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
17
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morrisania
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 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 1999 and 2016.

Since 2014 at least 649 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and October 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brook Avenue

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

West side of Brook Avenue

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

North side of East 161st Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 161st Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Beaux-Arts, and built between 1905 and 1915.

  1. Bronx Borough Courthouse Designated landmark
    180 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 6 gardens
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Boricua College - Bronx College
    230 feet
  2. NYC Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (Aeci) School
    510 feet
  3. Learning Through Play Pre-K Center at 443 East 162 Street Pre-K center
    820 feet
Show all 7
  1. Bronx Sky Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    880 feet
  2. Ace Institute of Technology Trade or language school
    940 feet
  3. The Salvation Army Bronx Citadel Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet
  4. P.S. X140 the Eagle School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. O'Neill Triangle Park
    220 feet
  2. Jardin la Roca Garden
    780 feet
  3. La Isla USA Garden
    800 feet
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  1. Flynn Playground
    810 feet
  2. Palmas del Caribe (Eagle Avenue Community Garden) Garden
    940 feet
  3. Melrose Commons Park
    970 feet
  4. Yolanda García Park
    970 feet
  5. Centro Cultural Rincon Criollo Garden
    1,090 feet
  6. El Coqui Liberation Community Garden
    1,160 feet
  7. El Batey Borincano Garden
    1,300 feet
  8. Hilton White Playground
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Casita Rincon Criollo Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Peters and Pauls Church House of worship
    590 feet
  2. Gospel Hill Baptist Church House of worship
    1,050 feet

Fire and police

  1. 42nd Precinct Police station
    540 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    570 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    710 feet
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    860 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 21 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 19 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brook Avenue or East 161st Street.

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