Prospect Avenue & Longwood Avenue

Prospect Avenue and Longwood Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Melrose, Bronx. The corner is also named Miguel Angel (Mike) Amadeo Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. United Church is 880 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 26 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Av
50 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Prospect Av/Westchester Av · Bx46
Within a walk
26 places
11 religious buildings, 7 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Avenue & Longwood Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Av, 50 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
    50 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. Longwood Av 6
    0.4 miles
    6

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, 80 feet away, for the Bx46.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Av/Westchester Av Bx46
    80 feet
    Bx46

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Longwood Avenue and Prospect Avenue.

  • 25 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 902 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    1,240 feet
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10455
Community board
Bronx Community Board 2
City Council district
17
Police precinct
40 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Melrose
Elevation
64 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Miguel Angel (Mike) Amadeo Way, a co-naming enacted on December 17, 2013 (Local Law 131 of 2013).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Amur maackia.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Miguel Angel (Mike) Amadeo Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and May 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Longwood Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Prospect Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 34 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1900 and 1908.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Fidelis Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    490 feet
  2. P.S. 130 Abram Stevens Hewitt School
    790 feet
  3. South Bronx Early College Academy Charter School
    1,070 feet
Show all 9
  1. United Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science LL School
    1,200 feet
  2. United Charter High School for the Humanities II School
    1,200 feet
  3. Longwood Preparatory Academy School
    1,290 feet
  4. Blondell Joyner Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet
  5. Success Academy Bronx 3 CMS School
    1,310 feet
  6. Success Academy Charter School-Bronx 3 School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bill Rainey Park
    900 feet
  2. Wishing Well Garden
    1,300 feet
  3. Abigail Playground
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Avenue Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    40 feet
  2. Casa Amadeo, Antigua Casa Hernandez Listed historic place
    150 feet
  3. Woodstock Library
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christian Church House of worship
    510 feet
  2. United Church Landmark
    880 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    250 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Longwood Avenue or Prospect Avenue.

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