East 156th Street & Beck Street

East 156th Street and Beck Street meet at a four-way crossing in Longwood, Bronx. The corner lies inside the Longwood Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Success Academy Bronx 3 CMS is 780 feet away. The nearest subway, Longwood Av, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, seven of them schools, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Longwood Av
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
650 feet
Southern Blvd/E 156 St · Bx19
Within a walk
22 places
7 schools, 6 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 156th Street & Beck Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Longwood Av, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Longwood Av 6
    1,160 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Prospect Av 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5
  2. E 149 St 6
    0.4 miles
    6

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Southern Blvd/E 156 St, 650 feet away, for the Bx19.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Southern Blvd/E 156 St Bx19 · Shelter
    650 feet
    Bx19
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx19 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beck St & Leggett Ave 20 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 902 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 880 Garrison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10455
Community board
Bronx Community Board 2
City Council district
17
Police precinct
41
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Longwood
Elevation
53 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,600 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 1909 and 1924.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and May 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Beck Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Beck Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Beck Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Beck Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of East 156th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of East 156th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Longwood Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 154 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1898 and 1900.

  1. St. Margaret's Episcopal Church Rectory Designated landmark
    310 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 7 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Prospect Family Residence Pre-K · landmark
    310 feet
  2. Success Academy Bronx 3 CMS School
    780 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School-Bronx 3 School
    780 feet
Show all 9
  1. Longwood Preparatory Academy School
    910 feet
  2. Girls Preparatory Charter School of the Bronx School
    970 feet
  3. M.S. 302 Luisa Dessus Cruz School
    970 feet
  4. P.S. 062 Inocensio Casanova School
    980 feet
  5. P.S. 130 Abram Stevens Hewitt School
    1,110 feet
  6. NP Ready Set Learn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fox Park
    300 feet
  2. Fox Playground
    400 feet
  3. Al Quiñones Playground
    660 feet
Show all 6
  1. The William Rainey Garden
    690 feet
  2. Bill Rainey Park
    940 feet
  3. Demera Santiago Garden
    960 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Longwood Historic District Listed historic place
    490 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Margarets Episcopal Church Landmark
    420 feet
  2. United Church Landmark
    850 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 22 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Beck Street or East 156th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.