Creston Avenue & East 193rd Street

Creston Avenue and East 193rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in University Heights (North)-Fordham, Bronx. The corner is also named Sylvester Royer Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. St. James Park is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingsbridge Rd, is about two minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingsbridge Rd
650 feet · 2 min on foot · B, D
Nearest bus stop
660 feet
East Kingsbridge Rd/Grand Concourse · Bx9, Bx22, Bx28, Bx38
Within a walk
16 places
7 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Creston Avenue & East 193rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingsbridge Rd, 650 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingsbridge Rd B, D
    650 feet
    B D

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Kingsbridge Rd 4
    990 feet
    4
  2. Fordham Rd B, D
    0.3 miles
    B D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is East Kingsbridge Rd/Grand Concourse, 660 feet away, for the Bx9, Bx22, Bx28 and Bx38.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. East Kingsbridge Rd/Grand Concourse Bx9, Bx22, Bx28, Bx38
    660 feet
    Bx9 Bx22 Bx28 Bx38

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx9 …
  2. Bx22 …
  3. Bx28 …
  4. Bx38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 34 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Jerome Ave & W 193 St 18 docks in all
    640 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway southbound at West Fordham Road, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2895 Jerome Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2478 Jerome Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10468
Community board
Bronx Community Board 7
City Council district
14
Police precinct
52
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
University Heights (North)-Fordham
Elevation
129 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Sylvester Royer Corner, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • 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 1921 and 1937.

Since 2014 at least 151 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 88 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the pin oak and the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sylvester Royer Corner.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Creston Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Creston Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLE ONLY ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN'S SERVICES MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-9PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of East 193rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of East 193rd Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built in 1812.

  1. Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Designated landmark
    510 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 246 Poe Center School
    330 feet
  2. Jasmin Educational Enterprises Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
  3. 1199 S E I U / Employer Child Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. D'Jesus Day Care Pre-K
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. James Park
    30 feet
  2. Poe Park
    440 feet
  3. Poe Park Playground
    560 feet
Show all 4
  1. St James Park Playground
    650 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Poe Cottage Listed historic place
    590 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    850 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Creston Avenue or East 193rd 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.