Longfellow Avenue & Hunts Point Avenue

Longfellow Avenue and Hunts Point Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Hunts Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Hunts Point Playground is 570 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hunts Point Av/Spofford Av, is 780 feet away for the Bx6 and Bx6 SBS, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
15 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
780 feet
Hunts Point Av/Spofford Av · Bx6, Bx6 SBS
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Longfellow Avenue & Hunts Point Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hunts Point Av/Spofford Av, 780 feet away, for the Bx6 and Bx6 SBS.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hunts Point Av/Spofford Av Bx6, Bx6 SBS · Shelter
    780 feet
    Bx6 Bx6 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx6 …
  2. Bx6 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Hunts Point Avenue.

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hunts Point Ave & Bryant Ave 21 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 870 Garrison Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 880 Garrison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10474
Community board
Bronx Community Board 2
City Council district
17
Police precinct
41
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hunts Point
Elevation
24 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Amur maackia.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and February 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hunts Point Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

East side of Longfellow Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 5AM-5PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-5PM

West side of Longfellow Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-5PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 048 Joseph R. Drake School
    1,120 feet
  2. Bronx Academy for Multi-Media School
    1,210 feet
  3. Leaders in Our Neighborhood Charter School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hunts Point Playground
    570 feet
  2. Joseph Rodman Drake Park & Enslaved African Burial Ground Park
    930 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Drake Park and Enslaved People's Burial Ground Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    660 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    910 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,070 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hunts Point Avenue or Longfellow Avenue.

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