Southern Boulevard & Intervale Avenue

Southern Boulevard and Intervale Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Hunts Point, Bronx. The corner is also named Eternal Rock Church by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. St Athanasius School is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, Longwood Av, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them schools, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Longwood Av
370 feet · 1 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Southern Blvd/Longwood Av · Bx19, T102
Within a walk
13 places
4 schools, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Southern Boulevard & Intervale Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Longwood Av, 370 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Longwood Av 6
    370 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Intervale Av 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5
  2. Hunts Point Av 6
    0.4 miles
    6

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Southern Blvd/Longwood Av, 310 feet away, for the Bx19 and T102.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Southern Blvd/Longwood Av Bx19, T102 · Shelter
    310 feet
    Bx19 T102
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx19 …
  2. T102 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Longwood Ave & Southern Blvd 24 docks in all
    470 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 870 Garrison Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 880 Garrison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10459
Community board
Bronx Community Board 2
City Council district
17
Police precinct
41
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hunts Point
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Eternal Rock Church, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Eternal Rock Church.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2019 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Intervale Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Intervale Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Southern Boulevard

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance. They were mostly built between 1900 and 1921.

  1. New York Public Library, Hunts Point Branch Designated landmark
    610 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. St Athanasius School
    100 feet
  2. NP Ready Set Learn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    620 feet
  3. Success Academy Bronx 3 CMS School
    1,100 feet
Show all 5
  1. Success Academy Charter School-Bronx 3 School
    1,100 feet
  2. Longwood Preparatory Academy School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bill Rainey Park
    700 feet
  2. Fox Park
    1,100 feet

Health care

  1. St Vincent Depaul Residence Nursing home or hospice
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hunts Point Library
    660 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Athanasius RC Church House of worship
    770 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 887 Southern Boulevard Older adult center
    890 feet

Fire and police

  1. 41st Precinct Police station
    660 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    270 feet
  2. Food Fair Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Intervale Avenue 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.