Commerce Avenue & Halsey Street

Commerce Avenue and Halsey Street meet at a three-way junction in Westchester Square, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 773 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. St Peters Church is 950 feet away, and Owen Dolen Recreation Center is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av
1,100 feet · 4 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
Westchester Av/Benson St · Bx21
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 2 listed historic places and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Commerce Avenue & Halsey Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av, 1,100 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av 6
    1,100 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

Pelham Bay
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Zerega Av 6
    0.4 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “City of Glass” (1993) by Romare Bearden and “The Land Between Open Water” (2024) by Shervone Neckles at the Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Westchester Av/Benson St, 950 feet away, for the Bx21.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Westchester Av/Benson St Bx21
    950 feet
    Bx21

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx21 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Hutchinson River Parkway southbound at Westchester Avenue & Hutchinson River Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 91 Westchester Square Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1133 Zerega Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

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 August 2022.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 773 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 924th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 470 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10461
Community board
Bronx Community Board 10
City Council district
18
Police precinct
45
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Westchester Square
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

Within 820 feet of this corner are 11 homes, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1935 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Commerce Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 222273.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1853 and 1855.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 park
  • 1 recreation center

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ferris Family Burial Plot Cemetery
    470 feet
  2. Owen F. Dolen Park
    1,000 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Westchester Square Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    960 feet
  2. St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex Listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Peters Church Landmark
    950 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Owen Dolen Recreation Center
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Commerce Avenue or Halsey Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.