Matthews Avenue & Brady Avenue

Matthews Avenue and Brady Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Bronx High School for the Visual Arts is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, Morris Park, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them schools, and six places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Morris Park
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 5
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
White Plains Rd/Bronxdale Av · Bx39
Within a walk
5 places
2 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Matthews Avenue & Brady Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Morris Park, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Morris Park 5
    0.4 miles
    5

Next trains at this station

Eastchester
1 line
  1. 5 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Bronx Park East 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is White Plains Rd/Bronxdale Av, 0.3 miles away, for the Bx39.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. White Plains Rd/Bronxdale Av Bx39
    0.3 miles
    Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Boston Road & Bronx River Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2090 Bronxdale Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2071 White Plains Road Charging for electric cars, 22 Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.3 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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10462
Community board
Bronx Community Board 11
City Council district
13
Police precinct
49
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pelham Parkway-Van Nest

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 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 1932 and 1955.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and November 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Brady Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Brady Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Matthews Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Matthews Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Bronx High School for the Visual Arts School
    630 feet
  2. Companion SVCS - Assisting Wellness Trade or language school
    630 feet
  3. Lil Inventors Child Care Wallace Avenue Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
Show all 4
  1. Young Voices Academy of the Bronx School
    980 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

See every intersection along Brady Avenue or Matthews Avenue.

Sources: NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, 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.