Clay Avenue & East 171st Street

Clay Avenue and East 171st Street meet at a three-way junction in Mount Eden-Claremont (West), Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 1,653 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Michel Triangle is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, 170 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the B and D. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, five of them schools, and five places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
170 St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · B, D
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Clay Av/E 171 St · Bx11
Within a walk
18 places
5 schools, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 170 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 170 St B, D
    0.5 miles
    B D

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. D …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. D …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Clay Av/E 171 St, 30 feet away, for the Bx11.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clay Av/E 171 St Bx11
    30 feet
    Bx11

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 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
    210 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at Clay Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1724 Webster Avenue Gas station
    0.4 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 seven crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,653 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 508th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 94 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10456
Community board
Bronx Community Board 4
City Council district
16
Police precinct
44
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mount Eden-Claremont (West)
Elevation
54 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,400 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 1931 and 1963.

Since 2014 at least 32 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 157 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red pine.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 swimming pools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Beanstalk Child Care Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    310 feet
  2. Mid-Bronx CCRP Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    390 feet
  3. Aim High - S Bronx Headstart Site 3 School
    430 feet
Show all 9
  1. Aleene Logan Child Preschool Center Pre-K
    450 feet
  2. Carl C Icahn Charter Middle School
    480 feet
  3. Icahn Charter School 1 School
    480 feet
  4. Claremont Neighborhood Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    500 feet
  5. I.S. 313 School of Leadership Development School
    1,070 feet
  6. I.S. 339 School
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Michel Triangle
    40 feet
  2. Claremont Park
    50 feet
  3. Little Claremont Playground
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

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

Community centers and public services

  1. Claremont Park Wading Pool Swimming pool
    270 feet
  2. Claremont Park Pool Swimming pool
    340 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. 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 five places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here 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 Clay Avenue or East 171st 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.