Park Avenue & East 151st Street

Park Avenue and East 151st Street meet at a three-way junction in Melrose, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 1,358 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center is 1,120 feet away, and Bronx Haven High School is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, 149 St-Grand Concourse, is about four minutes on foot, for the 2, 4 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
149 St-Grand Concourse
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 4, 5
Nearest bus stop
970 feet
Morris Av/E 149 St · Bx32
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & East 151st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 149 St-Grand Concourse, 1,150 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 149 St-Grand Concourse 2, 4, 5
    1,150 feet
    2 4 5

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 4 …
  3. 5 …
Manhattan
3 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 4 …
  3. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. 3 Av-149 St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Morris Av/E 149 St, 970 feet away, for the Bx32.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Morris Av/E 149 St Bx32
    970 feet
    Bx32

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx32 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 149 St & Park Ave 27 docks in all
    590 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway southbound at East 138th Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 99 East 149th Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2385 3rd Avenue Charging for electric cars, 14 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

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
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,358 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 605th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 913 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10451
Community board
Bronx Community Board 1
City Council district
17
Police precinct
40 and 44 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Melrose
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,400 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 1974 and 2007.

Since 2014 at least 330 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 26 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 151st Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of East 151st Street

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

East side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 6AM-2PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Modern Classical, and built between 1935 and 1937.

  1. Bronx Post Office Designated landmark
    700 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Luminous Morris Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  2. Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School
    1,300 feet
  3. Bronx Design and Construction Academy School
    1,300 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bronx Haven High School
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center Hospital
    1,120 feet
  2. EMS Station 14 Ambulance station
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Mott Avenue Control House (Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) Subway Control: Thematic Resources Houses Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,030 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Concourse Plaza Shopping center
    0.4 miles
  2. Bronx Terminal Market Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 151st Street or Park Avenue.

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