Taylor Avenue & Archer Street

Taylor Avenue and Archer Street meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Archer Elementary School is 330 feet away. The nearest subway, St Lawrence Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them schools, and 12 places to eat. About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1927 and 1930, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
3 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
St Lawrence Av
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
870 feet
White Plains Rd/Archer St · Bx36, Bx39
Within a walk
7 places
4 schools, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Taylor Avenue & Archer Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. St Lawrence 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. Parkchester 6
    0.5 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Community (Acer rubrum, Rosa palustris, Smilax rotundifolia, Carya cordiformis),” (2011) by Alison Mortisugu at the St Lawrence Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is White Plains Rd/Archer St, 870 feet away, for the Bx36 and Bx39.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. White Plains Rd/Archer St Bx36, Bx39
    870 feet
    Bx36 Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx36 …
  2. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at East 177th Street & Cross Bronx Expressway at Cross Bronx Service Road N, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1810 Cross Bronx Expressway Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2181 Starling Avenue Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10460
Community board
Bronx Community Board 9
City Council district
17 and 18 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
43
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River
Elevation
32 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,700 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 1927 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 16 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and May 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Archer Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Archer Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM

East side of Taylor Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Taylor Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Archer Elementary School
    330 feet
  2. Bronx Little School
    330 feet
  3. P.S. 536 School
    330 feet
Show all 4
  1. Icahn Charter School 6 - Middle School
    810 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Taylor Playground
    490 feet
  2. Wood Park
    960 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Archer Street or Taylor Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, 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.