East 167th Street & Franklin Avenue

East 167th Street and Franklin Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Morrisania, Bronx. The corner is also named Estella B. Diggs Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Hines Park is 50 feet away, and Harriet Tubman Charter School Junior Academy is 300 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 168 St/Franklin Av, is 660 feet away for the Bx35. Within a five-minute walk are 48 public places, 19 of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
660 feet
E 168 St/Franklin Av · Bx35
Within a walk
48 places
19 religious buildings, 9 schools and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 167th Street & Franklin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 168 St/Franklin Av, 660 feet away, for the Bx35.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 168 St/Franklin Av Bx35
    660 feet
    Bx35

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 167 St & Franklin Ave 20 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Cross Bronx Expressway & Fulton Avenue, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1365 Boston Road Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.1 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2022.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2024

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
74 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Estella B. Diggs Place, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2024 (Local Law 41 of 2024).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 455 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 166 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pine.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Estella B. Diggs Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of East 167th Street

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

South side of East 167th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 27 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Free Classical. They were mostly built between 1900 and 1901.

  1. Second Battery Armory Designated landmark
    290 feet
  2. Morris High School Outbuilding Designated landmark
    580 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 48 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Harriet Tubman Charter School Junior Academy School
    300 feet
  2. South Bronx Classical Charter School III School
    450 feet
  3. 3467 Ready, Set, Learn L L C Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    610 feet
Show all 14
  1. Escuela Comunitaria del Bronx/Bronx Community School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    740 feet
  2. Habitot Es Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet
  3. New Covenant Christian Church School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    800 feet
  4. Bronx International High School
    900 feet
  5. High School for Violin and Dance School
    900 feet
  6. Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies School · landmark · listed historic place
    900 feet
  7. Little Scholars Early Development Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 feet
  8. Mott Hall Charter School
    1,200 feet
  9. P.S. 063 Author's Academy School
    1,200 feet
  10. Sunshine Devel - Sharon Baptist HS School
    1,220 feet
  11. South Bronx Community Charter High School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hines Park
    50 feet
  2. Hines Park Playground
    60 feet
  3. Estella Diggs Park
    190 feet
Show all 9
  1. Genesis Community Garden
    260 feet
  2. Youth Village Playground
    650 feet
  3. Marie Brooks Community Garden
    810 feet
  4. Franklin Triangle
    910 feet
  5. Rev Lena Irons Unity Park
    1,200 feet
  6. Franklin Memorial Garden
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. Bronxcare Hospital Center Hospital
    1,210 feet
  2. Bronxcare Special Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Morrisania Library
    1,290 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at 1162 - 1176 Washington Avenue Community center
    820 feet
  2. Morrisania Post Office Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 26/Engine 50/Ladder 19 Fire station
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 167th Street or Franklin Avenue.

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, 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.