St Anns Avenue & East 145th Street

St Anns Avenue and East 145th Street meet at a three-way junction in Mott Haven-Port Morris, Bronx. The corner is also named Laquai Dash Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. St. Mary's Park is 50 feet away, and P.S. 277 is 690 feet away. The nearest subway, Brook Av, is about nine minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, three of them playgrounds, and five places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Brook Av
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Saint Ann'S Av/E 146 St · Bx17
Within a walk
14 places
3 playgrounds, 3 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Anns Avenue & East 145th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Brook Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brook Av 6
    0.5 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 3 Av-149 St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Ann'S Av/E 146 St, 140 feet away, for the Bx17.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Ann'S Av/E 146 St Bx17 · Shelter
    140 feet
    Bx17
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on St Anns Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Ann's Ave & E 144 St 23 docks in all
    240 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at St Anns Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 691 East 149th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2385 3rd Avenue Charging for electric cars, 14 Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 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 June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10454
Community board
Bronx Community Board 1
City Council district
8
Police precinct
40
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mott Haven-Port Morris
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Laquai Dash Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 1970 and 1973.

Since 2014 at least 17 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 135 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the dawn redwood.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Laquai Dash Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and April 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 145th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of East 145th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of St Anns Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Dutch Colonial Revival, and built between 1895 and 1897.

  1. Public School 27 Designated landmark
    670 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Cardinal McCloskey School and Home for Children Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    650 feet
  2. P.S. 277 School
    690 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Mary's Park
    50 feet
  2. St Mary's Playground West Playground
    590 feet
  3. St Mary's Playground South Playground
    780 feet
Show all 5
  1. People's Park
    980 feet
  2. People's Park Playground
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Thessalonica Christian Church House of worship
    1,050 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. St Marys Park Indoor Swimming Pool
    120 feet
  2. St Marys Recreation Center
    130 feet
  3. Betances VI Community Center
    380 feet
Show all 4
  1. Older adult center at 401 St Anns Avenue Older adult center
    500 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    860 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 145th Street or St Anns 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.