Eastchester Road & Givan Avenue

Eastchester Road and Givan Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester, Bronx. The corner is also named Dwight ‘Coach D’ Downer Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Hillside Finance Post Office is 920 feet away. The nearest subway, Gun Hill Rd, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 5. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, three of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Gun Hill Rd
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 5
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Eastchester Rd/Givan Av · Bx31
Within a walk
4 places
3 religious buildings and 1 post office, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Eastchester Road & Givan Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Gun Hill Rd, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Gun Hill Rd 5
    0.4 miles
    5

Next trains at this station

Eastchester
1 line
  1. 5 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 5 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Eastchester Rd/Givan Av, 120 feet away, for the Bx31.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastchester Rd/Givan Av Bx31
    120 feet
    Bx31

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Eastchester Road.

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. 1255 East Gun Hill Road Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 3401 Mickle Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1,130 feet
  3. 3329 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10469
Community board
Bronx Community Board 12
City Council district
12
Police precinct
47
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester
Elevation
137 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dwight ‘Coach D’ Downer Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2026 (Local Law 48 of 2026).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph

Homes

About 800 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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dwight ‘Coach D’ Downer Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2020 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Eastchester Road

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Eastchester Road

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Givan Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Givan Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 post office

Houses of worship

  1. Presbyterian Church of Ghana House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Hillside Finance Post Office
    920 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and three 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Eastchester Road or Givan 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.