East 172nd Street & Townsend Avenue

East 172nd Street and Townsend Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Mount Eden-Claremont (West), Bronx. The corner is also named José Ángel Hernández Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Comprehensive Model School Project M.S. 327 is 690 feet away. The nearest subway, 170 St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, six of them schools, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
170 St
1,010 feet · 4 min on foot · 4
Nearest bus stop
890 feet
Macombs Rd/Inwood Av · Bx18B
Within a walk
17 places
6 schools, 4 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 172nd Street & Townsend Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 170 St, 1,010 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 170 St 4
    1,010 feet
    4

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 4 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 4 …

Also within a walk

  1. Mt Eden Av 4
    1,130 feet
    4
  2. 170 St B, D
    1,200 feet
    B D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Views from Above” (2006) by Dina Bursztyn at the 170 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Macombs Rd/Inwood Av, 890 feet away, for the Bx18B.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Macombs Rd/Inwood Av Bx18B
    890 feet
    Bx18B

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx18B …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 172nd Street.

  • 26 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Walton Ave & E 171 St 19 docks in all
    660 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at East 174th Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1657 Jerome Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2478 Jerome Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10452
Community board
Bronx Community Board 4
City Council district
16
Police precinct
44
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mount Eden-Claremont (West)
Elevation
68 feet above sea level

This corner is also named José Ángel Hernández Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,500 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 1924 and 1929.

Since 2014 at least 186 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on José Ángel Hernández Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2021 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 172nd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 172nd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Townsend Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Townsend Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    340 feet
  2. Comprehensive Model School Project M.S. 327 School
    690 feet
  3. Mount Eden Children's Academy School
    690 feet
Show all 9
  1. Lucero Elementary School
    740 feet
  2. The Walton Avenue School
    740 feet
  3. Zeta Charter School - Bronx Mount Eden School
    890 feet
  4. P.S. 170 Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  5. Mid-Bronx CCRP Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet
  6. Kipp Bronx Charter School III School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Keltch Park
    980 feet
  2. Goble Playground
    1,100 feet
  3. Jerome Playground South Park
    1,250 feet
Show all 4
  1. Inwood Park
    1,270 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,140 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    880 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    950 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and 25 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 of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 172nd Street or Townsend 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.