Hughes Avenue & East 187th Street

Hughes Avenue and East 187th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Belmont, Bronx. The corner is also named Mario Borgatti Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. D'Auria-Murphy Triangle is 890 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Crotona Av/E 187 St, is 1,120 feet away for the Bx17, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 82 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bronx River Parkway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,120 feet
Crotona Av/E 187 St · Bx17
Within a walk
17 places
9 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hughes Avenue & East 187th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Crotona Av/E 187 St, 1,120 feet away, for the Bx17.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Crotona Av/E 187 St Bx17 · Shelter
    1,120 feet
    Bx17
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 188 St & Hughes Ave 21 docks in all
    400 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Pelham Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 609 East Fordham Road Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2300 Southern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10458
Community board
Bronx Community Board 6
City Council district
15
Police precinct
48
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Belmont
Elevation
79 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Mario Borgatti Way, a co-naming enacted on March 18, 2017 (Local Law 45 of 2017).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1911 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 68 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Mario Borgatti Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 8 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2024 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 187th Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

South side of East 187th Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM

East side of Hughes Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Hughes Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 208083, 212218, 212937 and 215878.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Belmont Community Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  2. Little Stars Childcare Program IV Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,080 feet
  3. Guardian Career Academy Trade or language school
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ciccarone Park
    180 feet
  2. Ciccarone Park Playground
    190 feet
  3. D'Auria-Murphy Triangle
    890 feet
Show all 4
  1. Belmont Little Farmers Garden
    920 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Belmont Library and Enrico Fermi Cultural Center Library
    440 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church House of worship
    180 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    660 feet
  2. ALDI Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 82 places to eat and 47 food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 19 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 187th Street or Hughes 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.