Southern Boulevard & Avenue St John

Southern Boulevard and Avenue St John meet at a four-way crossing in Longwood, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 302 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. 062 Inocensio Casanova is 850 feet away. The nearest subway, E 149 St, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them gardens, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
E 149 St
730 feet · 3 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Southern Blvd/Avenue Saint John · Bx19
Within a walk
11 places
3 gardens, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Southern Boulevard & Avenue St John Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is E 149 St, 730 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 149 St 6
    730 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Longwood Av 6
    0.4 miles
    6
  2. E 143 St-St Mary's St 6
    0.5 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bronx River” (2023) by Glenn Goldberg at the E 149 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Southern Blvd/Avenue Saint John, 50 feet away, for the Bx19.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Southern Blvd/Avenue Saint John Bx19
    50 feet
    Bx19

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx19 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Southern Boulevard.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Southern Blvd & Ave St John 19 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at East 140th Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 691 East 149th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 880 Garrison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 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 May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 302 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,468th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 184 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on Southern Boulevard281184
Westbound on Southern Boulevard21–
Total302184

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10455
Community board
Bronx Community Board 2
City Council district
17
Police precinct
41
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Longwood
Elevation
38 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1912 and 1927.

Since 2014 at least 11 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2023 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Avenue St John

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

West side of Avenue St John

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

East side of Southern Boulevard

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

West side of Southern Boulevard

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 062 Inocensio Casanova School
    850 feet
  2. United Bronx Parents Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Al Quiñones Playground
    670 feet
  2. Demera Santiago Garden
    890 feet
  3. The William Rainey Garden
    970 feet
Show all 6
  1. Fox Park
    1,190 feet
  2. Martin Luther King Triangle
    1,250 feet
  3. El Flamboyan Garden
    1,310 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 73/Ladder 42 Fire station
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    510 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 24 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue St John or Southern Boulevard.

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.