Eastchester Road & Waters Place

Eastchester Road and Waters Place meet at a three-way junction in Westchester Square, Bronx. The corner is also named Sylvia Lask Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. Calvary Hospital is 790 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Eastchester Rd/Waters Pl, is 70 feet away for the Bx31. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them hospitals, and six places to eat.

Safety record
22 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Hutchinson River Parkway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Eastchester Rd/Waters Pl · Bx31
Within a walk
5 places
2 hospitals, 1 fire station and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Eastchester Road & Waters Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Eastchester Rd/Waters Pl, 70 feet away, for the Bx31.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastchester Rd/Waters Pl Bx31
    70 feet
    Bx31

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Waters Place.

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Hutchinson River Parkway southbound at Westchester Avenue & Waters Place at Hutchinson River Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1490 Williamsbridge Road Gas station
    820 feet
  2. 1515 Williamsbridge Road Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1,080 feet
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 22 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 9 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2022
  • Turn calming, January 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10461
Community board
Bronx Community Board 11
City Council district
13
Police precinct
49
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Westchester Square
Elevation
24 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Sylvia Lask Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 60 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 1920 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sylvia Lask Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2022 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 9:30am to 7pm on Eastchester Road (west side).

East side of Eastchester Road

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY SATURDAY 9:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Waters Place

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Waters Place

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 11 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 204424 and 210723.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 hospitals
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Haven Charter High School
    1,200 feet

Health care

  1. Calvary Hospital
    790 feet
  2. Calvary Home Health Agency and Hospice Care Nursing home or hospice
    790 feet
  3. Montefiore Med Center - Jack D Weiler Hosp of a Einstein College DIV Hospital
    1,270 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 20/Squad 61 Fire station
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Eastchester Road or Waters Place.

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