Forest Avenue & East 160th Street

Forest Avenue and East 160th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Melrose, Bronx. The corner is also named Rev. Hubert Lee Reaves Sr. Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Woodstock Library is 170 feet away, and El Batey Borincano is 1,310 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, eight of them schools, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Av
1,020 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
1,100 feet
E 163 St/Tinton Av · Bx6
Within a walk
26 places
8 schools, 5 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Forest Avenue & East 160th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Av, 1,020 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Av 2, 5
    1,020 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Jackson Av 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bronx. Four Seasons” (2008) by Marina Tsersarskaya at the Prospect Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 163 St/Tinton Av, 1,100 feet away, for the Bx6.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 163 St/Tinton Av Bx6 · Shelter
    1,100 feet
    Bx6
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx6 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 160 St & Tinton Ave 22 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 481 East 163rd Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10456
Community board
Bronx Community Board 1
City Council district
17
Police precinct
40
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Melrose
Elevation
54 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Rev. Hubert Lee Reaves Sr. Way, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,800 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 1960 and 1992.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rev. Hubert Lee Reaves Sr. Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and April 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 160th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 160th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Forest Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Forest Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1913 and 1914.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 8 schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Argus Career Training Institute Trade or language school
    300 feet
  2. Academy of Public Relations School
    650 feet
  3. Jill Chaifetz Transfer High School
    650 feet
Show all 11
  1. P.S. X017 School
    650 feet
  2. South Bronx Academy for Applied Media School
    650 feet
  3. Blondell Joyner Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
  4. Gwendolyn B. Bland Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
  5. Legacy College Charter High School
    1,040 feet
  6. M.S. 301 Paul L. Dunbar School
    1,090 feet
  7. United Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science LL School
    1,090 feet
  8. United Charter High School for the Humanities II School
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Captain Rivera Playground
    980 feet
  2. Dunbar Playground
    1,120 feet
  3. Grove Hill Playground
    1,170 feet
Show all 6
  1. El Batey Borincano Garden
    1,310 feet
  2. Abigail Playground
    1,310 feet
  3. Grove Hill Community Garden
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Woodstock Library Landmark
    170 feet
  2. Prospect Avenue Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    1,060 feet
  3. Casa Amadeo, Antigua Casa Hernandez Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Forest Community center
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    1,210 feet
  2. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 160th Street or Forest Avenue.

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