Tratman Avenue & Benson Street

Tratman Avenue and Benson Street meet at a four-way crossing in Westchester Square, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Life Skills Preschool Westchester Sq is 250 feet away, and Ferris Family Burial Plot is 930 feet away. The nearest subway, Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av
630 feet · 2 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
Lane Av/Benson Av · Bx4A
Within a walk
17 places
5 religious buildings, 2 listed historic places and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Tratman Avenue & Benson Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av, 630 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av 6
    630 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

Pelham Bay
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Zerega Av 6
    0.3 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “City of Glass” (1993) by Romare Bearden and “The Land Between Open Water” (2024) by Shervone Neckles at the Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lane Av/Benson Av, 260 feet away, for the Bx4A.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lane Av/Benson Av Bx4A
    260 feet
    Bx4A

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx4A …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Hutchinson River Parkway southbound at Westchester Avenue & Hutchinson River Parkway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 91 Westchester Square Gas station
    1,280 feet
  2. 1515 Williamsbridge Road Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10461
Community board
Bronx Community Board 10
City Council district
18
Police precinct
45
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Westchester Square
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,100 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 1926 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sawtooth oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2015 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Benson Street (north side).

South side of Benson Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Benson Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Tratman Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Tratman Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 213827 and 215486.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Gothic Revival. They were built between 1853 and 1883.

  1. Van Schaick Free Reading Room Designated landmark
    240 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Owen F. Dolen Park.

  1. Westchester Square Memorial Stele by John Oakman, 1925
    290 feet
  2. Seat Sculpture by David Saunders, 1987
    310 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 library
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Life Skills Preschool Westchester Sq School
    250 feet
  2. P.S. X012 Lewis and Clark School
    260 feet
  3. American Barber Institute Trade or language school
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Owen F. Dolen Park
    210 feet
  2. The Pearly Gates Playground
    710 feet
  3. Ferris Family Burial Plot Cemetery
    930 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Westchester Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    920 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Westchester Square Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    470 feet
  2. Westchester Square Library
    1,000 feet
  3. St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Peters Church Landmark
    790 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Owen Dolen Recreation Center
    430 feet
  2. Westchester Post Office
    810 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    240 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    690 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    860 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    550 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and 14 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Benson Street or Tratman 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.