Longfellow Avenue & Freeman Street

Longfellow Avenue and Freeman Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crotona Park East, Bronx. The corner is also named Christian Community Church Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Freeman Triangle is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Freeman St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Freeman St
1,000 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
West Farms Rd/Longfellow Av · Bx35
Within a walk
24 places
14 religious buildings, 5 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Longfellow Avenue & Freeman Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Freeman St, 1,000 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Freeman St 2, 5
    1,000 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Whitlock Av 6
    1,010 feet
    6
  2. Simpson St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    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 West Farms Rd/Longfellow Av, 210 feet away, for the Bx35.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. West Farms Rd/Longfellow Av Bx35
    210 feet
    Bx35

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Longfellow Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. West Farms Rd & Boone Ave 20 docks in all
    600 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1441 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2021

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
59 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Christian Community Church Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 139 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Christian Community Church Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Freeman Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Freeman Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Longfellow Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Longfellow Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. X811 School
    590 feet
  2. Fannie Lou Hamer Middle School
    930 feet
  3. P.S. 066 School of Higher Expectations School
    930 feet
Show all 5
  1. Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School
    1,090 feet
  2. Children's Aid College Prep Charter School
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freeman Triangle
    50 feet
  2. Daniel Boone Playground
    600 feet
  3. Freeman Garden
    1,030 feet
Show all 5
  1. Synergi Urban Garden
    1,090 feet
  2. Bryant Triangle
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and 17 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Freeman Street or Longfellow Avenue.

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