Kelly Street & Leggett Avenue

Kelly Street and Leggett Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Longwood, Bronx. The corner is also named Frederick ‘Fred The Godson’ Thomas Avenue by local law. It lies on the edge of the Longwood Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Al Quiñones Playground is 180 feet away, and Bill Rainey Park is 920 feet away. The nearest subway, Longwood Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Longwood Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
850 feet
Longwood Av/Kelly St · Bx46
Within a walk
26 places
9 religious buildings, 8 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kelly Street & Leggett Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Longwood Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Longwood Av 6
    0.3 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Prospect Av 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5
  2. E 149 St 6
    0.4 miles
    6

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Longwood Av/Kelly St, 850 feet away, for the Bx46.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Longwood Av/Kelly St Bx46
    850 feet
    Bx46

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beck St & Leggett Ave 20 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 902 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 880 Garrison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10455
Community board
Bronx Community Board 2
City Council district
17
Police precinct
41
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Longwood
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Frederick ‘Fred The Godson’ Thomas Avenue, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,700 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 1908 and 1924.

Trees

NYC Parks records 99 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Frederick ‘Fred The Godson’ Thomas Avenue.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Kelly Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Kelly Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Kelly Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Kelly Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Leggett Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Leggett Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Longwood Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 160 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1898 and 1900.

  1. St. Margaret's Episcopal Church Rectory Designated landmark
    160 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 8 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Prospect Family Residence Pre-K · landmark
    350 feet
  2. Girls Preparatory Charter School of the Bronx School
    490 feet
  3. M.S. 302 Luisa Dessus Cruz School
    490 feet
Show all 9
  1. P.S. 062 Inocensio Casanova School
    900 feet
  2. P.S. 130 Abram Stevens Hewitt School
    960 feet
  3. Longwood Preparatory Academy School
    1,050 feet
  4. Success Academy Bronx 3 CMS School
    1,070 feet
  5. Success Academy Charter School-Bronx 3 School
    1,070 feet
  6. Urban Dove Team Charter School II School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Al Quiñones Playground
    180 feet
  2. Demera Santiago Garden
    480 feet
  3. The William Rainey Garden
    610 feet
Show all 6
  1. Fox Park
    790 feet
  2. Fox Playground
    880 feet
  3. Bill Rainey Park
    920 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Longwood Historic District Listed historic place
    450 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Margarets Episcopal Church Landmark
    210 feet
  2. United Church Landmark
    700 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 73/Ladder 42 Fire station
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kelly Street or Leggett 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.