Paulding Avenue & East 231st Street

Paulding Avenue and East 231st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Wakefield-Woodlawn, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Bethany Church of the Nazarene is 1,060 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 233 St/Paulding Av, is 620 feet away for the Bx31, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, four of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

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Paulding Avenue & East 231st Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 233 St/Paulding Av, 620 feet away, for the Bx31.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 233 St/Paulding Av Bx31 · Shelter
    620 feet
    Bx31
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx31 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Bronx Boulevard, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 836 East 233rd Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1250 East 229th Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 3305 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10466
Community board
Bronx Community Board 12
City Council district
12
Police precinct
47
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Wakefield-Woodlawn
Elevation
128 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2014 and May 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 231st Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of East 231st Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Paulding Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Paulding Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 police station

Health care

  1. Laconia Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    890 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethany Church of the Nazarene House of worship
    1,060 feet
  2. Gospel of St Luke Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Fire and police

  1. 47th Precinct Police station
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gitto Farmer's Market Supermarket
    950 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and two 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 nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

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