East 161st Street & Trinity Avenue

East 161st Street and Trinity Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Melrose, Bronx. The corner is also named Joanne Webb-Dixon Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. M.S. 301 Paul L. Dunbar is 330 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
800 feet
E 163 St/Trinity Av · Bx6
Within a walk
23 places
7 religious buildings, 5 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 161st Street & Trinity Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Av 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Jackson Av 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bronx. Four Seasons” (2008) by Marina Tsersarskaya at the Prospect Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 163 St/Trinity Av, 800 feet away, for the Bx6.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 163 St/Trinity Av Bx6
    800 feet
    Bx6

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx6 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on East 161st Street and Trinity Avenue.

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cauldwell Ave & E 161 St 18 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 481 East 163rd Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10456
Community board
Bronx Community Board 1
City Council district
17
Police precinct
40 and 42 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Melrose
Elevation
64 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Joanne Webb-Dixon Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 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 1960 and 1982.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Joanne Webb-Dixon Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 161st Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of East 161st Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Trinity Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Trinity Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1913 and 1914.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. M.S. 301 Paul L. Dunbar School
    330 feet
  2. Argus Career Training Institute Trade or language school
    490 feet
  3. Legacy College Charter High School
    880 feet
Show all 8
  1. P.S. X140 the Eagle School
    950 feet
  2. Blondell Joyner Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 feet
  3. Gwendolyn B. Bland Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  4. United Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science LL School
    1,230 feet
  5. United Charter High School for the Humanities II School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dunbar Playground
    360 feet
  2. Palmas del Caribe (Eagle Avenue Community Garden) Garden
    600 feet
  3. Hilton White Playground
    730 feet
Show all 6
  1. Grove Hill Playground
    1,010 feet
  2. El Batey Borincano Garden
    1,120 feet
  3. Grove Hill Community Garden
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Woodstock Library Landmark
    830 feet
  2. Bronx Borough Courthouse Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,270 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and eight 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 East 161st Street or Trinity Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.