Brook Avenue & East 164th Street

Brook Avenue and East 164th Street meet at a three-way junction in Morrisania, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Melrose Commons Park is 760 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Brook Av/Park Av, is 550 feet away for the Bx41, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Major Deegan Expressway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
550 feet
Brook Av/Park Av · Bx41
Within a walk
22 places
10 religious buildings, 3 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brook Avenue & East 164th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brook Av/Park Av, 550 feet away, for the Bx41.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brook Av/Park Av Bx41
    550 feet
    Bx41

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 165 St & Clay Ave 19 docks in all
    850 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway southbound at East 153rd Street & Major Deegan Expressway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 481 East 163rd Street Gas station
    1,020 feet
  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 six crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10451
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
16
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morrisania
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 2004 and 2020.

Since 2014 at least 793 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Not Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2014 and November 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brook Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of East 164th Street

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

South side of East 164th Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Nine buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Transitional Romanesque Revival / neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1901 and 1902.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Learning Through Play Pre-K Center at 443 East 162 Street Pre-K center
    730 feet
  2. Owl Early Intervention Program Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    850 feet
  3. Boricua College - Bronx College
    1,210 feet
Show all 6
  1. New Pathways Academy School
    1,260 feet
  2. South Bronx International Middle School
    1,260 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 3 School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Melrose Commons Park
    760 feet
  2. El Coqui Liberation Community Garden
    980 feet
  3. O'Neill Triangle Park
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. Arcilla Playground
    1,200 feet
  2. Bette's Rose Garden
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Saxe Embroidery Company Building Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Gospel Hill Baptist Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    650 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brook Avenue or East 164th Street.

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