East 229th Street & Schieffelin Avenue

East 229th Street and Schieffelin Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester, Bronx. The corner is also named Lillie Mae Berry O'Garra Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. P.S. 112 Bronxwood is 320 feet away, and Seton Falls Park is 1,040 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 229 St/Schieffelin Av, is 140 feet away for the Bx31, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them schools.

Safety record
6 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
New England Thruway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
E 229 St/Schieffelin Av · Bx31
Within a walk
13 places
6 schools, 2 playgrounds and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 229th Street & Schieffelin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 229 St/Schieffelin Av, 140 feet away, for the Bx31.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 229 St/Schieffelin Av Bx31 · Shelter
    140 feet
    Bx31
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the New England Thruway southbound at Baychester Avenue & East 222nd Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1225 East 233rd Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1250 East 229th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    970 feet
  3. 3329 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10466
Community board
Bronx Community Board 12
City Council district
12
Police precinct
47
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester
Elevation
112 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Lillie Mae Berry O'Garra Square, a co-naming enacted on February 12, 1997 (Local Law 9 of 1997).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

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 1951 and 1962.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Lillie Mae Berry O'Garra Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 229th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 229th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Schieffelin Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Schieffelin Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nature area
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 112 Bronxwood School
    320 feet
  2. Northeast Bronx Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet
  3. Sco Family Services - Christopher School
    860 feet
Show all 7
  1. Baychester Middle School
    920 feet
  2. Bronx Alliance Middle School
    920 feet
  3. One World Middle School at Edenwald School
    920 feet
  4. Cardinal Spellman High School
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Edenwald Playground
    270 feet
  2. Seton Falls Park Nature area
    1,040 feet
  3. Stars & Stripes Playground
    1,080 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1220 East 229th Street Older adult center
    230 feet
  2. Edenwald Community Center Listed historic place
    730 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #8 Satellite Police station
    700 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gitto Farmer's Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Palm Tree Marketplace Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 229th Street or Schieffelin Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.