East 233rd Street & Ely Avenue

East 233rd Street and Ely Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester, Bronx. The corner is also named Honorable Samuel Bea Jr. Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. High Rock Playground is 1,300 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Laconia Av/E 233 St, is 220 feet away for the Bx31, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and seven places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bronx River Parkway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
Laconia Av/E 233 St · Bx31
Within a walk
5 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 nature area and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 233rd Street & Ely Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Laconia Av/E 233 St, 220 feet away, for the Bx31.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Laconia Av/E 233 St Bx31
    220 feet
    Bx31

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 233rd Street.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Bronx Boulevard, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 1220 East 233rd Street Gas station
    860 feet
  2. 1250 East 229th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 3305 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 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
87 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Honorable Samuel Bea Jr. Way, a co-naming enacted on August 3, 2016 (Local Law 92 of 2016).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1964.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Honorable Samuel Bea Jr. Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

North side of East 233rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of East 233rd Street

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

East side of Ely Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Ely Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Little Stars School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Seton Falls Park Nature area
    1,080 feet
  2. High Rock Playground
    1,300 feet

Fire and police

  1. 47th Precinct Police station
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    750 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gitto Farmer's Market Supermarket
    840 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 233rd Street, Ely Avenue or Strang Avenue.

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