Parkchester Road & East Avenue

Parkchester Road and East Avenue (south) meet at a four-way crossing in Parkchester, Bronx. The corner is also named Beverly Roberts Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Virginia Park is 1,050 feet away. The nearest subway, Parkchester, is about four minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Parkchester
1,010 feet · 4 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Metropolitan Av/Wood Av · Bx4A
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 3 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Parkchester Road & East Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Parkchester, 1,010 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Parkchester 6
    1,010 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “A Day in Parkchester” (2011) by William Low at the Parkchester station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Metropolitan Av/Wood Av, 230 feet away, for the Bx4A.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Metropolitan Av/Wood Av Bx4A
    230 feet
    Bx4A

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx4A …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at East 177th Street & Cross Bronx Expressway, 1,280 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1879 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2181 Starling Avenue Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10462
Community board
Bronx Community Board 9
City Council district
18
Police precinct
43
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Parkchester
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Beverly Roberts Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 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 1927 and 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Beverly Roberts Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 8 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Parkchester Road (east side).

East side of East Avenue

  • Metered parking 10 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of East Avenue

  • Metered parking 7 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Parkchester Road

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 200033, 200948, 201821 and 222227.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 parks
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. American Beauty School Trade or language school
    90 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Virginia Playground
    780 feet
  2. Hugh J. Grant Circle
    920 feet
  3. Virginia Park
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. Wood Park
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Parkchester Baptist Church House of worship
    1,140 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1380 Metropolitan Avenue Older adult center
    90 feet
  2. Parkchester Post Office
    640 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    230 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,080 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,240 feet
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    330 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and six 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East Avenue or Parkchester Road.

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