Macombs Road & West Mount Eden Avenue

Macombs Road and West Mount Eden Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Mount Eden-Claremont (West), Bronx. The corner is also named Bishop Ceacer Gooding Road by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Goble Playground is 350 feet away. The nearest subway, Mt Eden Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them schools, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Mt Eden Av
840 feet · 3 min on foot · 4
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
Macombs Rd/Goble Pl · Bx18A
Within a walk
15 places
4 schools, 3 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Macombs Road & West Mount Eden Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Mt Eden Av, 840 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mt Eden Av 4
    840 feet
    4

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 4 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 4 …

Also within a walk

  1. 170 St 4
    0.3 miles
    4
  2. 174-175 Sts B, D
    0.4 miles
    B D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Procession of Folk #3” (2006) by Amir Bey at the Mt Eden Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Macombs Rd/Goble Pl, 210 feet away, for the Bx18A.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Macombs Rd/Goble Pl Bx18A
    210 feet
    Bx18A

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx18A …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Macombs Road.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Macombs Rd & Featherbed Ln 19 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at East 174th Street, 1,300 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1657 Jerome Avenue Gas station
    1,150 feet
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported nine crashes at this corner, more 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 May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10452
Community board
Bronx Community Board 4
City Council district
14 and 16 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
44 and 46 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mount Eden-Claremont (West)

This corner is also named Bishop Ceacer Gooding Road, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 499 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Bishop Ceacer Gooding Road.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 4 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in April 2016, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of West Mount Eden Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. Kipp Bronx Charter School III School
    660 feet
  2. Comprehensive Model School Project M.S. 327 School
    930 feet
  3. Mount Eden Children's Academy School
    930 feet
Show all 5
  1. Zeta Charter School - Bronx Mount Eden School
    1,150 feet
  2. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Goble Playground
    350 feet
  2. Inwood Park
    460 feet
  3. Featherbenches Park
    990 feet
Show all 6
  1. Jerome Playground South Park
    1,000 feet
  2. Half-Nelson Playground
    1,200 feet
  3. Jennie Jerome Playground
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. West Bronx Recreation Center
    510 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  3. Antillana Market Place Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 12 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Macombs Road or West Mount Eden Avenue.

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