Prospect Avenue & East 181st Street

Prospect Avenue and East 181st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Tremont, Bronx. The corner is also named Kalief Browder Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Mapes Park is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 180 St/Southern Blvd, is 950 feet away for the Bx40 and Bx42, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, six of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
E 180 St/Southern Blvd · Bx40, Bx42
Within a walk
23 places
6 religious buildings, 6 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Avenue & East 181st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 180 St/Southern Blvd, 950 feet away, for the Bx40 and Bx42.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 180 St/Southern Blvd Bx40, Bx42
    950 feet
    Bx40 Bx42

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx40 …
  2. Bx42 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 35 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 180 St & Prospect Ave 22 docks in all
    390 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Cross Bronx Expressway & Fulton Avenue, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 495 East 180th Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2300 Southern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10457
Community board
Bronx Community Board 6
City Council district
15
Police precinct
48
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Tremont
Elevation
70 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Kalief Browder Way, a co-naming enacted on March 18, 2017 (Local Law 45 of 2017).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 84 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 181st Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of East 181st Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Prospect Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Prospect Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 5 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Kappa III School
    900 feet
  2. M.S. 129 Academy for Independent Learning and Leadership School
    900 feet
  3. The School of Science and Applied Learning School
    900 feet
Show all 6
  1. Frederick Douglass Academy V. Middle School
    1,040 feet
  2. P.S. 057 Crescent School
    1,040 feet
  3. P.S. X188 School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mapes Park
    40 feet
  2. Garden of Happiness Garden
    340 feet
  3. Mapes Pool Park · swimming pool
    390 feet
Show all 9
  1. Mapes Avenue Garden
    400 feet
  2. Mapes Park Playground
    400 feet
  3. Garden Of Youth Garden
    620 feet
  4. Clinton Avenue Community Garden
    880 feet
  5. Hornaday Community Garden
    1,170 feet
  6. Belmont Playground
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 2070 Clinton Avenue Older adult center
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    600 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 20 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, 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 181st Street or Prospect Avenue.

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