Nelson Avenue & Featherbed Lane

Nelson Avenue and Featherbed Lane meet at a four-way crossing in University Heights (South)-Morris Heights, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Half-Nelson Playground is 160 feet away. The nearest subway, Mt Eden Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 4. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, three of them playgrounds, and eight places to eat. About 7,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1950, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Mt Eden Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 4
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
University Av/W 174 St · Bx3, Bx36
Within a walk
14 places
3 playgrounds, 3 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nelson Avenue & Featherbed Lane Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Mt Eden Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Mt Eden Av 4
    0.4 miles
    4

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 176 St 4
    0.5 miles
    4

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 University Av/W 174 St, 520 feet away, for the Bx3 and Bx36.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. University Av/W 174 St Bx3, Bx36
    520 feet
    Bx3 Bx36

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx3 …
  2. Bx36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Featherbed Ln & Nelson Ave 22 docks in all
    30 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at East 174th Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10452
Community board
Bronx Community Board 5
City Council district
14
Police precinct
46
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
University Heights (South)-Morris Heights
Elevation
104 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 7,700 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 in 1950.

Since 2014 at least 173 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 91 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and June 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Featherbed Lane

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

South side of Featherbed Lane

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

East side of Nelson Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Nelson Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Nelson Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Aim High - S Bronx Headstart Site 2 School
    320 feet
  2. Bronx Works Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
  3. Sedgwick Trade or language school
    990 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 199x - the Shakespeare School
    1,120 feet
  2. Bronx-Manhattan SDA School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Half-Nelson Playground
    160 feet
  2. Featherbed Triangle
    300 feet
  3. Sedgwick Playground
    990 feet
Show all 4
  1. Plimpton Playground
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Featherbed Lane Presbyterian Church House of worship
    250 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Sedgwick Community Center
    730 feet
  2. West Bronx Recreation Center
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    100 feet
  2. Extra Jumbo Market Place Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Antillana Market Place Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and nine 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 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Featherbed Lane or Nelson Avenue.

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