Southern Boulevard & Leggett Avenue

Southern Boulevard and Leggett Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Longwood, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Fox Park is 570 feet away, and St Margarets Episcopal Church is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, E 149 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
E 149 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Southern Blvd/Av Saint John · Bx19
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 2 playgrounds and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Southern Boulevard & Leggett Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is E 149 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. E 149 St 6
    0.3 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Longwood Av 6
    0.3 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/Av Saint John, 530 feet away, for the Bx19.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Southern Blvd/Av Saint John Bx19
    530 feet
    Bx19

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx19 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Leggett Avenue and Southern Boulevard.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beck St & Leggett Ave 20 docks in all
    650 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2020

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
29 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

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 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Leggett Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Leggett Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Leggett Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Leggett Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Southern Boulevard

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Fifteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built in 1900.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 062 Inocensio Casanova School
    340 feet
  2. Prospect Family Residence Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fox Park
    570 feet
  2. Fox Playground
    740 feet
  3. Al Quiñones Playground
    920 feet
Show all 4
  1. The William Rainey Garden
    930 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Margarets Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,130 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 22 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Leggett 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.