Longwood Avenue & Hewitt Place

Longwood Avenue and Hewitt Place meet at a four-way crossing in Longwood, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 255 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Christian Church is 600 feet away, and Success Academy Charter School-Bronx 3 is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Av, is about two minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Av
580 feet · 2 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Longwood Av/Dawson St · Bx46
Within a walk
23 places
10 religious buildings, 5 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Longwood Avenue & Hewitt Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Av, 580 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Av 2, 5
    580 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. Longwood Av 6
    1,310 feet
    6
  2. Intervale Av 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bronx. Four Seasons” (2008) by Marina Tsersarskaya at the Prospect Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Longwood Av/Dawson St, 300 feet away, for the Bx46.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Longwood Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Westchester Ave & Longwood Ave 23 docks in all
    710 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. 902 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 255 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,541st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 90 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10459
Community board
Bronx Community Board 2
City Council district
17
Police precinct
41
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Longwood
Elevation
57 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2014 and October 2020; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hewitt Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Hewitt Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Longwood Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Longwood Avenue

  • Ambulettes and Access-A-Ride only 1 sign AMBULETTE & ACCESS-A-RIDE ONLY 9AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 117 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1898 and 1900.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Longwood Preparatory Academy School
    720 feet
  2. Success Academy Bronx 3 CMS School
    730 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School-Bronx 3 School
    730 feet
Show all 7
  1. P.S. 130 Abram Stevens Hewitt School
    770 feet
  2. Fidelis Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,060 feet
  3. The Longwood Academy of Discovery School
    1,110 feet
  4. Prospect Family Residence Pre-K · landmark
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bill Rainey Park
    320 feet
  2. Wishing Well Garden
    720 feet
  3. Dawson Playground
    800 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Casa Amadeo, Antigua Casa Hernandez Listed historic place
    510 feet
  2. Prospect Avenue Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    610 feet
  3. Longwood Historic District Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. United Church Landmark
    370 feet
  2. Christian Church House of worship
    600 feet
  3. St Margarets Episcopal Church Landmark
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    330 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 24 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hewitt Place or Longwood Avenue.

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