Walton Avenue & Hawkstone Street

Walton Avenue and Hawkstone Street meet at a three-way junction in Mount Eden-Claremont (West), Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Bronxcare Hospital Center is 1,050 feet away. The nearest subway, Mt Eden Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Mt Eden Av
870 feet · 3 min on foot · 4
Nearest bus stop
670 feet
Grand Concourse/Mount Eden Av · Bx1, Bx2, BxM4
Within a walk
14 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Walton Avenue & Hawkstone Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Mt Eden Av, 870 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mt Eden Av 4
    870 feet
    4

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 4 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 4 …

Also within a walk

  1. 174-175 Sts B, D
    1,110 feet
    B D
  2. 170 St B, D
    0.3 miles
    B D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Procession of Folk #3” (2006) by Amir Bey at the Mt Eden Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand Concourse/Mount Eden Av, 670 feet away, for the Bx1, Bx2 and BxM4.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Concourse/Mount Eden Av Bx1, Bx2, BxM4
    670 feet
    Bx1 Bx2 BxM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx1 …
  2. Bx2 …
  3. BxM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Walton Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Grand Concourse & E Mount Eden Ave 19 docks in all
    750 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at East 174th Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1657 Jerome Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2478 Jerome Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.9 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.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10452
Community board
Bronx Community Board 4
City Council district
16
Police precinct
44
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mount Eden-Claremont (West)
Elevation
90 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,200 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 1935.

Since 2014 at least 186 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and April 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hawkstone Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Hawkstone Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Walton Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Mid-Bronx CCRP Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    380 feet
  2. P.S. 170 Pre-K
    860 feet
  3. Lucero Elementary School
    1,130 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Walton Avenue School
    1,130 feet
  2. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jerome Playground South Park
    980 feet
  2. Inwood Park
    1,010 feet
  3. Jennie Jerome Playground
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. Featherbenches Park
    1,260 feet

Health care

  1. Bronxcare Hospital Center Hospital
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    540 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and 18 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Walton 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.