Walton Avenue & Rockwood Street

Walton Avenue and Rockwood Street meet at a three-way junction in Mount Eden-Claremont (West), Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Lucero Elementary School is 860 feet away. The nearest subway, 170 St, is about four 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 14 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
170 St
1,130 feet · 4 min on foot · B, D
Nearest bus stop
720 feet
Grand Concourse/E 172 St · Bx1, Bx2
Within a walk
14 places
4 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Walton Avenue & Rockwood Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 170 St, 1,130 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 170 St B, D
    1,130 feet
    B D

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. D …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. D …

Also within a walk

  1. Mt Eden Av 4
    1,140 feet
    4
  2. 174-175 Sts B, D
    0.3 miles
    B D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand Concourse/E 172 St, 720 feet away, for the Bx1 and Bx2.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Concourse/E 172 St Bx1, Bx2 · Shelter
    720 feet
    Bx1 Bx2
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx1 …
  2. Bx2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Walton Avenue.

  • 51 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Walton Ave & E 171 St 19 docks in all
    660 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
    0.4 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 six crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

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
94 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,800 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 1926 and 1929.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 83 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and April 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Rockwood Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Rockwood Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Walton Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Mid-Bronx CCRP Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    640 feet
  2. Lucero Elementary School
    860 feet
  3. The Walton Avenue School
    860 feet
Show all 7
  1. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    860 feet
  2. P.S. 170 Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  3. Comprehensive Model School Project M.S. 327 School
    1,210 feet
  4. Mount Eden Children's Academy School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jerome Playground South Park
    1,250 feet
  2. Inwood Park
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. Bronxcare Hospital Center Hospital
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,140 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 25 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 corners on foot, seven of them 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.