East 174th Street & Townsend Avenue

East 174th Street and Townsend Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Mount Eden-Claremont (West), Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 36 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Jerome Playground South is 70 feet away. The nearest subway, 174-175 Sts, is about two minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
26 hurt
36 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
174-175 Sts
610 feet · 2 min on foot · B, D
Nearest bus stop
500 feet
Grand Concourse/E 174 St · Bx1, Bx2
Within a walk
16 places
6 religious buildings, 3 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 174th Street & Townsend Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 174-175 Sts, 610 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 174-175 Sts B, D
    610 feet
    B D

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. D …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. D …

Also within a walk

  1. Mt Eden Av 4
    610 feet
    4
  2. 176 St 4
    0.3 miles
    4

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bronx Seasons Everchanging” (2018) by Roy Secord at the 174-175 Sts station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand Concourse/E 174 St, 500 feet away, for the Bx1 and Bx2.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Concourse/E 174 St Bx1, Bx2
    500 feet
    Bx1 Bx2

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx1 …
  2. Bx2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 174 St & Walton Ave 27 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at East 174th Street, 160 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1657 Jerome Avenue Gas station
    470 feet
  2. 2478 Jerome Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 36 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10452
Community board
Bronx Community Board 4
City Council district
14 and 16 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
44 and 46 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mount Eden-Claremont (West)

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,800 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 1938.

Since 2014 at least 159 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the tree of heaven.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of East 174th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Townsend Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM

West side of Townsend Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 170 Pre-K
    300 feet
  2. Mid-Bronx CCRP Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    770 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jerome Playground South Park
    70 feet
  2. Jennie Jerome Playground
    150 feet
  3. Featherbenches Park
    340 feet
Show all 6
  1. Inwood Park
    610 feet
  2. Morris Mesa Playground
    830 feet
  3. Townsend Garden
    1,100 feet

Health care

  1. Bronxcare Hospital Center Hospital
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Grand Concourse Library
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    490 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 19 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 174th Street or Townsend Avenue.

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