Park Avenue & East 138th Street

Park Avenue and East 138th Street meet at a three-way junction in Mott Haven-Port Morris, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The column “Bronx Local Board #2 World War Memorial” is 790 feet away. The nearest subway, 138 St-Grand Concourse, is about a minute on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them gardens, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
138 St-Grand Concourse
310 feet · 1 min on foot · 4, 5
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
E 138 St/Grand Concourse · Bx33
Within a walk
6 places
2 gardens, 2 monuments or memorials and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & East 138th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 138 St-Grand Concourse, 310 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 138 St-Grand Concourse 4, 5
    310 feet
    4 5

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. 3 Av-138 St 6
    900 feet
    6
  2. 149 St-Grand Concourse 2, 4, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 4 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Day Into Night Into Day” (2021) by Amy Pryor at the 138 St-Grand Concourse station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 138 St/Grand Concourse, 440 feet away, for the Bx33.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 138 St/Grand Concourse Bx33
    440 feet
    Bx33

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx33 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 138th Street.

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 138 St & Park Ave 21 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway southbound at East 138th Street, 400 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 109 East 138th Street Gas station
    720 feet
  2. 2385 3rd Avenue Charging for electric cars, 14 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 October 2017.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10451
Community board
Bronx Community Board 1
City Council district
8
Police precinct
40
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mott Haven-Port Morris
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 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 2020 and 2024.

Since 2014 at least 371 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the littleleaf linden and the red maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and September 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 138th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of East 138th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 5 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Graham Square.

  1. Bronx Local Board #2 World War Memorial Column, 1921
    790 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 gardens
  • 2 monuments or memorials
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. La Finca del Sur Community Garden
    200 feet
  2. La Finca Del Sur Garden
    250 feet
  3. Graham Triangle
    860 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. World War I Memorial Monument or memorial
    970 feet
  2. Private David W Gentle Memorial Flagstaff Monument or memorial
    1,030 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 295 East 138th Street Older adult center
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Pioneer Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    630 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 138th Street or Park Avenue.

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