East 172nd Street & West Farms Road

East 172nd Street and West Farms Road meet at a four-way crossing in Crotona Park East, Bronx. The corner is also named Fannie Lou Hamer Street by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School is 640 feet away. The nearest subway, Whitlock Av, is about eight minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, six of them schools, and one place to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Whitlock Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
730 feet
West Farms Rd/Jennings St · Bx35
Within a walk
18 places
6 schools, 5 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 172nd Street & West Farms Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Whitlock Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Whitlock Av 6
    0.4 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Freeman St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bronx River View” (2010) by Barbara Grygutis at the Whitlock Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is West Farms Rd/Jennings St, 730 feet away, for the Bx35.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. West Farms Rd/Jennings St Bx35
    730 feet
    Bx35

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on East 172nd Street and West Farms Road.

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Boone Ave & E 172 St 19 docks in all
    230 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway southbound at East 174th Street & Bronx River Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1614 Boston Road Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10460
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
17
Police precinct
42 and 43 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crotona Park East
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Fannie Lou Hamer Street, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2019 (Local Law 24 of 2019).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,500 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 1996 and 2018.

Since 2014 at least 728 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Sterling' silver linden.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Fannie Lou Hamer Street.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 172nd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 172nd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of West Farms Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 public space

Schools and child care

  1. Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School
    640 feet
  2. Samara Community School
    760 feet
  3. Fannie Lou Hamer Middle School
    860 feet
Show all 7
  1. P.S. 066 School of Higher Expectations School
    860 feet
  2. P.S. X811 School
    1,200 feet
  3. Samara Community School Pre-K
    1,240 feet
  4. Fairmont Neighborhood School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Starlight Park
    170 feet
  2. Daniel Boone Playground
    780 feet
  3. Starlight Park Playground
    1,050 feet
Show all 5
  1. Rock Garden Park
    1,210 feet
  2. Rock Garden Park Playground
    1,270 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 1560 Boone Avenue Public space
    580 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Cross Bronx Plaza Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and seven 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 172nd Street or West Farms Road.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.