Prospect Avenue & Jennings Street

Prospect Avenue and Jennings Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crotona Park East, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 382 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Concrete Dreams Community Garden is 430 feet away. The nearest subway, Freeman St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Freeman St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Prospect Av/Ritter Pl · Bx17
Within a walk
22 places
13 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Avenue & Jennings Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Freeman St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Freeman St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The El” (2007) by Daniel Hauben at the Freeman St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Prospect Av/Ritter Pl, 270 feet away, for the Bx17.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Av/Ritter Pl Bx17
    270 feet
    Bx17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Prospect Avenue.

  • 45 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Prospect Ave & Jennings St 20 docks in all
    90 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. 1365 Boston Road Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 382 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,340th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 154 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10459
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
17
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crotona Park East
Elevation
71 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 282 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2021 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Jennings Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING JUNE–OCTOBER 11AM–7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Jennings Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING JUNE–OCTOBER 11AM–7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Prospect Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Prospect Avenue

  • No parking 7 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 22 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Puerto Rican Family Institute Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    280 feet
  2. P186x Walter J. Damrosch School
    560 feet
  3. P.S. 134 George F. Bristow School
    780 feet
Show all 4
  1. Little Scholars Early Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    930 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Concrete Dreams Community Garden
    430 feet
  2. Cordelia’s Garden
    730 feet
  3. Model T Community Garden
    990 feet
Show all 5
  1. Crotona Park
    1,000 feet
  2. McKinley Square
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 21 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Jennings Street or Prospect Avenue.

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