East 163rd Street & Eagle Avenue

East 163rd Street and Eagle Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Morrisania, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. P.S. X140 the Eagle School is 170 feet away, and Melrose Commons Park is 1,260 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 163 St/3 Av, is 330 feet away for the Bx13, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
E 163 St/3 Av · Bx13
Within a walk
24 places
8 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 163rd Street & Eagle Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 163 St/3 Av, 330 feet away, for the Bx13.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 163 St/3 Av Bx13 · Shelter
    330 feet
    Bx13
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx13 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 Ave & E 163 St 27 docks in all
    320 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
    850 feet
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 10 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 February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10456
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
17
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morrisania
Elevation
67 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • 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.

Since 2014 at least 77 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2015 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Eagle Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Eagle Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of East 163rd Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Beaux-Arts, and built between 1905 and 1915.

  1. Bronx Borough Courthouse Designated landmark
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. X140 the Eagle School
    170 feet
  2. Ace Institute of Technology Trade or language school
    420 feet
  3. M.S. 301 Paul L. Dunbar School
    860 feet
Show all 7
  1. P.S. 146 Edward Collins School
    900 feet
  2. Gwendolyn B. Bland Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet
  3. Boricua College - Bronx College
    1,090 feet
  4. Learning Through Play Pre-K Center at 443 East 162 Street Pre-K center
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dunbar Playground
    340 feet
  2. Hilton White Playground
    350 feet
  3. Palmas del Caribe (Eagle Avenue Community Garden) Garden
    660 feet
Show all 8
  1. Charlton-Thompson Garden
    710 feet
  2. O'Neill Triangle Park
    1,000 feet
  3. William Hooper Garden (Jacquline Denise Davis Garden) Garden
    1,140 feet
  4. El Batey Borincano Garden
    1,180 feet
  5. Melrose Commons Park
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Saxe Embroidery Company Building Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Gospel Hill Baptist Church House of worship
    480 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    520 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,000 feet
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Eagle Avenue or East 163rd Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, 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.