Brook Avenue & East 168th Street

Brook Avenue and East 168th Street meet at a three-way junction in Claremont Village-Claremont (East), Bronx, at the edge of NYCHA's Webster development. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. P.S. 132 Garret A. Morgan is 640 feet away, and P.S. 053 Basheer Quisim is 1,170 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 168 St/Park Av, is 120 feet away for the Bx35. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, five of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
E 168 St/Park Av · Bx35
Within a walk
22 places
5 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brook Avenue & East 168th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 168 St/Park Av, 120 feet away, for the Bx35.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 168 St/Park Av Bx35
    120 feet
    Bx35

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 168th Street.

  • 35 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 169 St & Webster Ave 21 docks in all
    920 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at Clay Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 1201 Webster Avenue Gas station
    530 feet
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.4 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2025
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10456
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
16
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Claremont Village-Claremont (East)
Elevation
34 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 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 1929 and 1964.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Webster development.

Since 2014 at least 115 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brook Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Brook Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of East 168th Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 community centers
  • 2 gardens
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Claremont Neighborhood Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    420 feet
  2. P.S. 132 Garret A. Morgan School
    640 feet
  3. Harriet Tubman Charter School
    1,100 feet
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  1. P.S. 053 Basheer Quisim School
    1,170 feet
  2. Escuela Comunitaria del Bronx/Bronx Community School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet
  3. Habitot Es Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet
  4. Wildflower New York Charter School Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Morgan Playground
    270 feet
  2. Rev Lena Irons Unity Park
    620 feet
  3. Claremont Neighborhood Garden
    1,150 feet
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  1. Clay Avenue Community Garden
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Triboro Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Nursing home or hospice
    1,100 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Webster Community center
    250 feet
  2. Morrisania Post Office Listed historic place
    910 feet
  3. William Hodson Community Center Older adult center
    1,070 feet
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  1. Community center at 1162 - 1176 Washington Avenue Community center
    1,150 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 26/Engine 50/Ladder 19 Fire station
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    370 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 21 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brook Avenue or East 168th Street.

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