Fulton Avenue & East 173rd Street

Fulton Avenue and East 173rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Claremont Village-Claremont (East), Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Bathgate Playground is 90 feet away, and Crotona Play Center stands 260 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 3 Av/E 173 St, is 320 feet away for the Bx15, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them schools, and one place to eat.

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Fulton Avenue & East 173rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/E 173 St, 320 feet away, for the Bx15.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/E 173 St Bx15
    320 feet
    Bx15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 173rd Street and Fulton Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fulton Ave & E 172 St 19 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Cross Bronx Expressway & Fulton Avenue, 1,130 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 4056 3rd Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2300 Southern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.5 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10457
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
15
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Claremont Village-Claremont (East)
Elevation
73 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 98 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 173rd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 173rd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Fulton Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Art Moderne. They were built between 1934 and 1936.

  1. Crotona Play Center Designated landmark
    260 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 fire station
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Icahn Charter School 6 School
    200 feet
  2. P.S./M.S. 004 Crotona Park West School
    200 feet
  3. Bright Future Kiddie 4 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    460 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bronx Preparatory Charter School
    1,140 feet
  2. Tremont Monterey Day Care Site I I Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Crotona Park
    50 feet
  2. Bathgate Playground
    90 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 18 Ambulance station
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Crotona Park Recreation Center Landmark
    110 feet

Fire and police

  1. Rescue 3 Fire station
    1,050 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

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