Longfellow Avenue & Oak Point Avenue

Longfellow Avenue and Oak 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. Joseph Rodman Drake Park & Enslaved African Burial Ground is 60 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Halleck St/Food Center Dr, is 1,110 feet away for the Bx6 and Bx6 SBS, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and four places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,110 feet
Halleck St/Food Center Dr · Bx6, Bx6 SBS
Within a walk
2 places
1 listed historic place and 1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Longfellow Avenue & Oak Point Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Halleck St/Food Center Dr, 1,110 feet away, for the Bx6 and Bx6 SBS.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halleck St/Food Center Dr Bx6, Bx6 SBS
    1,110 feet
    Bx6 Bx6 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx6 …
  2. Bx6 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hunts Point Ave & Bryant Ave 21 docks in all
    0.3 miles

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. 1101 Leggett Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 880 Garrison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 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 January 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
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

Within 820 feet of this corner are 12 homes, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1938.

Trees

NYC Parks records 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the black locust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

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

East side of Longfellow Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Longfellow Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Oak Point Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

South side of Oak Point Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Joseph Rodman Drake Park & Enslaved African Burial Ground Park
    60 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    110 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    650 feet
  3. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Longfellow Avenue or Oak Point 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.