Longfellow Avenue & Spofford Avenue

Longfellow Avenue and Spofford 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. In 2025, 299 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Bronx Academy for Multi-Media is 530 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Spofford Av/Bryant Av, is 190 feet away for the Bx6, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Spofford Av/Bryant Av · Bx6
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 4 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Longfellow Avenue & Spofford Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Spofford Av/Bryant Av, 190 feet away, for the Bx6.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Spofford Av/Bryant Av Bx6
    190 feet
    Bx6

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx6 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.5 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.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 299 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,471st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 97 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
39 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 800 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 1923 and 1929.

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 London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and October 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Longfellow Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • 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 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-5PM

North side of Spofford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Spofford Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Bronx Academy for Multi-Media School
    530 feet
  2. Leaders in Our Neighborhood Charter School
    530 feet
  3. P.S. 048 Joseph R. Drake School
    700 feet
Show all 5
  1. La Peninsula Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  2. Sunshine Devel - la Peninsula HS School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hunts Point Playground
    410 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    650 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and seven 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Longfellow Avenue or Spofford Avenue.

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