Waring Avenue & Matthews Avenue

Waring Avenue and Matthews Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Allerton, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. St Lucys RC Church is 870 feet away. The nearest subway, Pelham Pkwy, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, nine of them schools, and one place to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1956, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Pelham Pkwy
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
1,290 feet
Waring Av/White Plains Rd · Bx39
Within a walk
14 places
9 schools, 2 older adult centers and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Waring Avenue & Matthews Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Pelham Pkwy 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Back to the Garden” (2007) by Tomie Arai at the Pelham Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Waring Av/White Plains Rd, 1,290 feet away, for the Bx39.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Waring Av/White Plains Rd Bx39
    1,290 feet
    Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Pelham Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2475 Boston Road Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2071 White Plains Road Charging for electric cars, 22 Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.8 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 May 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10467
Community board
Bronx Community Board 11
City Council district
13
Police precinct
49
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Allerton
Elevation
105 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1956.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2024 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Matthews Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Matthews Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Waring Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Waring Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 schools
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. St Lucy School
    940 feet
  2. Bronx Green Middle School
    990 feet
  3. Bronx Park Middle School
    990 feet
Show all 9
  1. Pelham Academy of Academics and Community Engagement School
    990 feet
  2. Astor Collegiate Academy School
    1,270 feet
  3. Bronxdale High School
    1,270 feet
  4. Collegiate Institute for Math and Science School
    1,270 feet
  5. High School of Language and Innovation School
    1,270 feet
  6. Pelham Preparatory Academy School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pelham Organic - Pelham Parkway Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Lucys RC Church House of worship
    870 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 975 Waring Avenue Older adult center
    1,010 feet
  2. Older adult center at 2424 Boston Road Older adult center · listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Choice Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, 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 Matthews Avenue or Waring Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.