Needham Avenue & Palmer Avenue

Needham Avenue and Palmer Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Ujamaa Northeast Community Garden is 740 feet away. The nearest subway, Baychester Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 5. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and four places to eat. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1964 and 1996, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Baychester Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 5
Nearest bus stop
470 feet
Boston Rd/Palmer Av · Bx30
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 1 garden and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Needham Avenue & Palmer Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Baychester Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Baychester Av 5
    0.3 miles
    5

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Boston Rd/Palmer Av, 470 feet away, for the Bx30.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Boston Rd/Palmer Av Bx30
    470 feet
    Bx30

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx30 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the New England Thruway southbound at Baychester Avenue & East 222nd Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3800 Boston Road Gas station
    1,020 feet
  2. 1250 East 229th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 3329 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10466
Community board
Bronx Community Board 12
City Council district
12
Police precinct
47
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester
Elevation
73 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1964 and 1996.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 4 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Needham Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Palmer Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

West side of Palmer Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Bronx Charter School for Better Learning School
    930 feet
  2. P.S. 111 Seton Falls School
    930 feet
  3. Cardinal Spellman High School
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. Baychester Academy School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ujamaa Northeast Community Garden
    740 feet
  2. Stars & Stripes Playground
    840 feet
  3. Seton Falls Park Nature area
    850 feet

Health care

  1. Split Rock Rehabilitation and Health Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. S&Y Fish & Meat Caribbean Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Palm Tree Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Needham Avenue or Palmer Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.