Oak Point Avenue & Coster Street

Oak Point Avenue and Coster Street meet at a four-way crossing in Hunts Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Joseph Rodman Drake Park & Enslaved African Burial Ground is 840 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Tiffany St/Oak Point Av, is 1,060 feet away for the Bx46, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and three places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,060 feet
Tiffany St/Oak Point Av · Bx46
Within a walk
2 places
1 listed historic place and 1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Oak Point Avenue & Coster Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Tiffany St/Oak Point Av, 1,060 feet away, for the Bx46.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Tiffany St/Oak Point Av Bx46
    1,060 feet
    Bx46

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hunts Point Ave & Bryant Ave 21 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1101 Leggett Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 880 Garrison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 0 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10474
Community board
Bronx Community Board 2
City Council district
17
Police precinct
41
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hunts Point
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

Within 820 feet of this corner are 35 homes, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and November 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Coster Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-6PM ALL DAYS

West side of Coster Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

North side of Oak Point Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

South side of Oak Point Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Joseph Rodman Drake Park & Enslaved African Burial Ground Park
    840 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Drake Park and Enslaved People's Burial Ground Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Coster Street or Oak Point 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.