Fulton Avenue & East 169th Street

Fulton Avenue and East 169th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Morrisania, Bronx. The corner is also named Winifred A.R. Bama Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Morrisania Baptist Church is 240 feet away, and Bronxcare Hospital Center is 420 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Franklin Av/E 169 St, is 510 feet away for the Bx35. Within a five-minute walk are 36 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
510 feet
Franklin Av/E 169 St · Bx35
Within a walk
36 places
13 religious buildings, 10 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Fulton Avenue & East 169th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Franklin Av/E 169 St, 510 feet away, for the Bx35.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Franklin Av/E 169 St Bx35
    510 feet
    Bx35

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Franklin Ave & E 169 St 19 docks in all
    440 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Cross Bronx Expressway & Fulton Avenue, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1201 Webster Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10456
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
16 and 17 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morrisania
Elevation
77 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Winifred A.R. Bama Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 34 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Winifred A.R. Bama Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 51 signs on these blocks
  • 17 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and June 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 169th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 169th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Fulton Avenue

  • Doctor plates only 4 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Fulton Avenue

  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Classical Revival, and built between 1907 and 1908.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 10 schools
  • 4 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Gloria Alston Children's Learning Center (WNYCS) School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    380 feet
  2. Wildflower New York Charter School
    480 feet
  3. Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics School
    760 feet
Show all 12
  1. Eximius College Preparatory Academy: a College Board School
    760 feet
  2. Mott Hall Charter School
    790 feet
  3. P.S. 063 Author's Academy School
    790 feet
  4. Harriet Tubman Charter School
    880 feet
  5. Frederick Douglass Academy III Secondary School
    1,030 feet
  6. I.S. 219 New Venture School
    1,030 feet
  7. Kappa School
    1,030 feet
  8. My First Step Enrichment Program 2 Pre-K
    1,210 feet
  9. P.S. 132 Garret A. Morgan School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Drew Playground
    340 feet
  2. Beatty Plaza
    500 feet
  3. McKinley Square
    850 feet
Show all 6
  1. Genesis Community Garden
    1,100 feet
  2. Rev Lena Irons Unity Park
    1,200 feet
  3. Estella Diggs Park
    1,310 feet

Health care

  1. Bronxcare Special Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    360 feet
  2. Bronxcare Hospital Center Hospital
    420 feet
  3. EMS Station 26 Ambulance station
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Morrisania Library Landmark
    690 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Morrisania Baptist Church House of worship
    240 feet
  2. Iglesia Ni Cristo Church of Christ House of worship
    440 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1315 Franklin Avenue Older adult center
    760 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    820 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 24 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 169th Street or Fulton Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.