Southern Boulevard & East 147th Street

Southern Boulevard and East 147th Street meet at a three-way junction in Mott Haven-Port Morris, Bronx. The corner is also named Police Officer Kenneth Mahon Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Samuel Gompers Industrial High School stands 390 feet away. The nearest subway, E 149 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, five of them schools, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
E 149 St
770 feet · 3 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
790 feet
Prospect Av/E 149 St · Bx17
Within a walk
14 places
5 schools, 3 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Southern Boulevard & East 147th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is E 149 St, 770 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. E 149 St 6
    770 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. E 143 St-St Mary's St 6
    1,030 feet
    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 Prospect Av/E 149 St, 790 feet away, for the Bx17.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Av/E 149 St Bx17
    790 feet
    Bx17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wales Ave & E 147 St 19 docks in all
    710 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at East 140th Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10455
Community board
Bronx Community Board 1
City Council district
8
Police precinct
40
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mott Haven-Port Morris
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Police Officer Kenneth Mahon Place, a co-naming enacted on July 11, 2011 (Local Law 47 of 2011).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 566 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Police Officer Kenneth Mahon Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and May 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 147th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of East 147th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Southern Boulevard

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Southern Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Medieval Revival, and built between 1931 and 1933.

  1. Samuel Gompers Industrial High School Designated landmark
    390 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. H.E.R.O. High (Health, Education, and Research Occupations High School) School
    480 feet
  2. Mott Haven Community High School
    480 feet
  3. Learning Through Play Pre-K Center at 535 Union Avenue Pre-K center
    490 feet
Show all 6
  1. Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science School
    810 feet
  2. P.S. 025 Bilingual School
    850 feet
  3. Neighborhood Charter School: Bronx School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Martin Luther King Triangle
    990 feet
  2. El Flamboyan Garden
    1,030 feet
  3. Fountain Of Youth Playground
    1,050 feet
Show all 5
  1. St. Mary's Park
    1,260 feet
  2. St Mary's Playground East Playground
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,060 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    130 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 147th Street or Southern Boulevard.

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, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.