Grand Concourse & East 196th Street

Grand Concourse and East 196th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford Park, Bronx. The corner is also named Bertha Keller Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 39 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Poe Park is 890 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingsbridge Rd, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
25 hurt
39 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingsbridge Rd
100 feet · 1 min on foot · B, D
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Grand Concourse/E 196 St · Bx1, Bx2, BxM4
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 3 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Grand Concourse & East 196th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingsbridge Rd, 100 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingsbridge Rd B, D
    100 feet
    B D

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Kingsbridge Rd 4
    0.3 miles
    4
  2. Bedford Park Blvd B, D
    0.4 miles
    B D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand Concourse/E 196 St, 100 feet away, for the Bx1, Bx2 and BxM4.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Concourse/E 196 St Bx1, Bx2, BxM4
    100 feet
    Bx1 Bx2 BxM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx1 …
  2. Bx2 …
  3. BxM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 196 St & Valentine Ave 25 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at West 230th Street & Major Deegan Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2895 Jerome Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2478 Jerome Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 39 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 25 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 11 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10458
Community board
Bronx Community Board 7
City Council district
14 and 15 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
52
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford Park
Elevation
153 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Bertha Keller Corner, a co-naming enacted on May 16, 1990 (Local Law 14 of 1990).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 4,400 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 1922 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 184 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Bertha Keller Corner.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

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

North side of East 196th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of East 196th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Grand Concourse

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Grand Concourse

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Our Lady of Refuge School
    810 feet
  2. P.S. 046 Edgar Allan Poe School
    940 feet
  3. P.S. 246 Poe Center School
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. Kipp Bronx Charter School II School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Poe Park
    890 feet
  2. Poe Park Playground
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Refuge Church House of worship
    790 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and 20 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 196th Street or Grand Concourse.

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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.