Washington Avenue & East 163rd Street

Washington Avenue and East 163rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Morrisania, Bronx. The corner is also named Curtis Hamilton Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 33 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. El Coqui Liberation Community Garden is 610 feet away, and St Peters and Pauls Church is 1,150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 163 St/3 Av, is 460 feet away for the Bx6, Bx6 SBS and Bx13. Within a five-minute walk are 33 public places and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
22 hurt
33 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
460 feet
E 163 St/3 Av · Bx6, Bx6 SBS, Bx13
Within a walk
33 places
12 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Washington Avenue & East 163rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 163 St/3 Av, 460 feet away, for the Bx6, Bx6 SBS and Bx13.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 163 St/3 Av Bx6, Bx6 SBS, Bx13 · Shelter
    460 feet
    Bx6 Bx6 SBS Bx13
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx6 …
  2. Bx6 SBS …
  3. Bx13 …

Live arrivals

Washington Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm, every day.

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Washington Ave & E 163 St 23 docks in all
    260 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 481 East 163rd Street Gas station
    270 feet
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 33 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 22 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2021
  • Turn calming, March 2024
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10451
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
16 and 17 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morrisania
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Curtis Hamilton Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,600 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 2004 and 2017.

Since 2014 at least 884 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Curtis Hamilton Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and May 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 163rd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 163rd Street

  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Washington Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 5AM-5PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

West side of Washington Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-8PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Beaux-Arts, and built between 1905 and 1915.

  1. Bronx Borough Courthouse Designated landmark
    670 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 gardens
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Learning Through Play Pre-K Center at 443 East 162 Street Pre-K center
    350 feet
  2. Boricua College - Bronx College
    410 feet
  3. Ace Institute of Technology Trade or language school
    550 feet
Show all 9
  1. Owl Early Intervention Program Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    770 feet
  2. P.S. X140 the Eagle School
    1,020 feet
  3. NYC Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (Aeci) School
    1,070 feet
  4. Sharon Baptist Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet
  5. The Salvation Army Bronx Citadel Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet
  6. Sunshine Devel - Sharon Baptist HS School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. O'Neill Triangle Park
    260 feet
  2. Melrose Commons Park
    420 feet
  3. El Coqui Liberation Community Garden
    610 feet
Show all 10
  1. Jardin la Roca Garden
    870 feet
  2. La Isla USA Garden
    910 feet
  3. Yolanda García Park
    1,060 feet
  4. Charlton-Thompson Garden
    1,170 feet
  5. Dunbar Playground
    1,180 feet
  6. Hilton White Playground
    1,200 feet
  7. Flynn Playground
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Saxe Embroidery Company Building Listed historic place
    940 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Gospel Hill Baptist Church House of worship
    710 feet
  2. St Peters and Pauls Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Fire and police

  1. 42nd Precinct Police station
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    160 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    790 feet
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,200 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Concourse Plaza Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 163rd Street or Washington Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.