Brook Avenue & East 171st Street

Brook Avenue and East 171st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Claremont Village-Claremont (East), Bronx, at the edge of NYCHA's Butler development. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Carl C Icahn Charter Middle School is 100 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Webster Av/E 171 St, is 270 feet away for the Bx41, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, six of them schools, and three places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Webster Av/E 171 St · Bx41
Within a walk
20 places
6 schools, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brook Avenue & East 171st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Webster Av/E 171 St, 270 feet away, for the Bx41.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Webster Av/E 171 St Bx41
    270 feet
    Bx41

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 171 St & Webster Ave 20 docks in all
    200 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at Clay Avenue, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1724 Webster Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10457
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
16
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Claremont Village-Claremont (East)
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1963 and 1965.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2024 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brook Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Brook Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of East 171st Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 swimming pools
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Carl C Icahn Charter Middle School
    100 feet
  2. Icahn Charter School 1 School
    100 feet
  3. Aleene Logan Child Preschool Center Pre-K
    320 feet
Show all 10
  1. Aim High - S Bronx Headstart Site 3 School
    330 feet
  2. Beanstalk Child Care Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    380 feet
  3. Mid-Bronx CCRP Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    460 feet
  4. Claremont Neighborhood Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    570 feet
  5. P.S. 042 Claremont School
    1,130 feet
  6. I.S. 313 School of Leadership Development School
    1,270 feet
  7. I.S. 339 School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Michel Triangle
    260 feet
  2. Claremont Park
    420 feet
  3. Little Claremont Playground
    760 feet
Show all 4
  1. Jardin de la Familia Garden
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Victory RC Church House of worship
    150 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Claremont Park Wading Pool Swimming pool
    640 feet
  2. Claremont Park Pool Swimming pool
    720 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brook Avenue or East 171st 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.