Prospect Avenue & East 161st Street

Prospect Avenue and East 161st Street meet at a three-way junction in Morrisania, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. United Charter High School for the Humanities II is 850 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Av, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat. About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Av
270 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Prospect Av/Westchester Av · Bx17
Within a walk
20 places
10 religious buildings, 3 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Avenue & East 161st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Av, 270 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Av 2, 5
    270 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Intervale Av 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5
  2. Jackson Av 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bronx. Four Seasons” (2008) by Marina Tsersarskaya at the Prospect Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Prospect Av/Westchester Av, 90 feet away, for the Bx17.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Av/Westchester Av Bx17 · Shelter
    90 feet
    Bx17
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 161st Street and Prospect Avenue.

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Westchester Ave & Longwood Ave 23 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 902 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10459
Community board
Bronx Community Board 1
City Council district
17
Police precinct
40 and 41 and 42 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morrisania
Elevation
70 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 161st Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of East 161st Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Prospect Avenue

  • Ambulettes and Access-A-Ride only 1 sign AMBULETTE & ACCESS-A-RIDE ONLY 9AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Eleven buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and built in 1900.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Fidelis Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    130 feet
  2. United Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science LL School
    850 feet
  3. United Charter High School for the Humanities II School
    850 feet
Show all 5
  1. Blondell Joyner Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
  2. P.S. 130 Abram Stevens Hewitt School
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Union Garden - Union Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,050 feet
  2. Bill Rainey Park
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Avenue Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    320 feet
  2. Casa Amadeo, Antigua Casa Hernandez Listed historic place
    510 feet
  3. Woodstock Library
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christian Church House of worship
    340 feet
  2. United Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    600 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 27 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 161st Street or Prospect 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.