Creston Avenue & East 196th Street

Creston Avenue and East 196th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford Park, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Kipp Bronx Charter School II is 710 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingsbridge Rd, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingsbridge Rd
330 feet · 1 min on foot · B, D
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
Grand Concourse/E 196 St · Bx1, Bx2, BxM4
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 4 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Creston Avenue & East 196th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingsbridge Rd, 330 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingsbridge Rd B, D
    330 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
    1,220 feet
    4
  2. Bedford Park Blvd-Lehman College 4
    0.5 miles
    4

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand Concourse/E 196 St, 340 feet away, for the Bx1, Bx2 and BxM4.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Concourse/E 196 St Bx1, Bx2, BxM4
    340 feet
    Bx1 Bx2 BxM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx1 …
  2. Bx2 …
  3. BxM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 196 St & Valentine Ave 25 docks in all
    710 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at West 230th Street & Major Deegan Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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)
Bedford Park
Elevation
150 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,000 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 1923 and 1939.

Since 2014 at least 320 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and October 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Creston Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Creston Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of East 196th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of East 196th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 parks

Schools and child care

  1. Kipp Bronx Charter School II School
    710 feet
  2. P.S. 246 Poe Center School
    1,070 feet
  3. Our Lady of Refuge School
    1,180 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 046 Edgar Allan Poe School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. James Park
    1,090 feet
  2. Poe Park
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Refuge Church House of worship
    1,160 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Creston Avenue or East 196th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.