Grand Concourse & East 156th Street

Grand Concourse and East 156th Street meet at a three-way junction in Concourse-Concourse Village, Bronx. The corner lies inside the Grand Concourse Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 4,458 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. South Bronx Literacy Academy is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, 161 St-Yankee Stadium, is about seven minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, 12 of them schools, and one place to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
161 St-Yankee Stadium
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 4, B, D
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Grand Concourse/E 156 St · Bx1, Bx2
Within a walk
18 places
12 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Grand Concourse & East 156th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 161 St-Yankee Stadium, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 161 St-Yankee Stadium 4, B, D
    0.3 miles
    4 B D

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. B …
  3. D …
Manhattan
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. B …
  3. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 149 St-Grand Concourse 2, 4, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 4 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Room of Tranquility” (2002) by Helene Brandt and “Wall-Slide” (2002) by Vito Acconci (Acconci Studio in collaboration with di Domenico + Partners) at the 161 St-Yankee Stadium station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand Concourse/E 156 St, 90 feet away, for the Bx1 and Bx2.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Concourse/E 156 St Bx1, Bx2 · Shelter
    90 feet
    Bx1 Bx2
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx1 …
  2. Bx2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Grand Concourse & E 156 St 21 docks in all
    90 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway southbound at East 153rd Street & Major Deegan Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 611 Grand Concourse Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 771 Concourse Village West Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2023
  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 4,458 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 182nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,926 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10451
Community board
Bronx Community Board 4
City Council district
16
Police precinct
44
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Concourse-Concourse Village
Elevation
81 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 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 1927 and 1955.

Since 2014 at least 265 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 131 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2020 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 156th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of East 156th Street

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

East side of Grand Concourse

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 21 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Parallel parking only 1 sign PARALLEL PARKING ONLY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Grand Concourse Historic District.

Seventeen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1927 and 1937.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 courthouse
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls Charter School, the Shirley Rodrguez-Remeneski School
    380 feet
  2. Concourse Village Elementary School Pre-K
    480 feet
  3. Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls Charter School
    480 feet
Show all 14
  1. South Bronx Literacy Academy School
    480 feet
  2. South Bronx Classical Charter School IV School
    650 feet
  3. East Side House Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    810 feet
  4. Bronx Leadership Academy II High School
    830 feet
  5. Bronx Legacy High School
    830 feet
  6. Careers in Sports High School
    830 feet
  7. Kipp Academy Elementary Charter School
    830 feet
  8. Kipp Academy Charter School
    1,190 feet
  9. P.S./M.S. 031 the William Lloyd Garrison School
    1,190 feet
  10. Cardinal Hayes High School
    1,270 feet
  11. Rosalyn Yalow Charter School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Franz Sigel Park
    70 feet
  2. New Roots Community Farm Garden
    780 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Bronx Supreme Court Courthouse · listed historic place
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Concourse Plaza Shopping center
    1,100 feet
  2. Bronx Terminal Market Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 156th Street or Grand Concourse.

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