Jennings Street & Bristow Street

Jennings Street and Bristow Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crotona Park East, Bronx. The corner is also named Mother Cordelia Gilford Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. P.S. 134 George F. Bristow is 290 feet away. The nearest subway, Freeman St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, 16 of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Freeman St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
760 feet
Prospect Av/Ritter Pl · Bx17
Within a walk
24 places
16 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Jennings Street & Bristow Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Freeman St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Freeman St 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The El” (2007) by Daniel Hauben at the Freeman St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Prospect Av/Ritter Pl, 760 feet away, for the Bx17.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Av/Ritter Pl Bx17
    760 feet
    Bx17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Prospect Ave & Jennings St 20 docks in all
    580 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 1365 Boston Road Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10459
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
17
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crotona Park East
Elevation
68 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Mother Cordelia Gilford 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 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 205 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Mother Cordelia Gilford Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bristow Street

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Bristow Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Jennings Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING JUNE–OCTOBER 11AM–7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Jennings Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 16 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 134 George F. Bristow School
    290 feet
  2. Little Scholars Early Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    440 feet
  3. Puerto Rican Family Institute Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    770 feet
Show all 5
  1. Beanstalk Child Care Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
  2. P186x Walter J. Damrosch School
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cordelia’s Garden
    470 feet
  2. Model T Community Garden
    510 feet
  3. Concrete Dreams Community Garden
    920 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and 14 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bristow Street or Jennings Street.

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.