Washington Avenue & St Pauls Place

Washington Avenue and St Pauls Place meet at a four-way crossing in Claremont Village-Claremont (East), Bronx, at the edge of NYCHA's Morris II development. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. St Pauls Episcopal Church is 130 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 3 Av/St Pauls Pl, is 670 feet away for the Bx15, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, nine of them schools, and five places to eat.

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Washington Avenue & St Pauls Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/St Pauls Pl, 670 feet away, for the Bx15.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/St Pauls Pl Bx15
    670 feet
    Bx15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 Ave & E 170 St 21 docks in all
    700 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at Clay Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1365 Boston Road Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.6 miles

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10456
Community board
Bronx Community Board 3
City Council district
16
Police precinct
42
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Claremont Village-Claremont (East)
Elevation
59 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,300 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 1961 and 1964.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Morris II development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of St Pauls Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of St Pauls Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

East side of Washington Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Washington Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 9 schools
  • 8 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Fort George Community Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    130 feet
  2. P.S. 055 Benjamin Franklin School
    330 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 2 School
    330 feet
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  1. P.S. 042 Claremont School
    1,000 feet
  2. Aleene Logan Child Preschool Center Pre-K
    1,070 feet
  3. Claremont Neighborhood Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet
  4. Aim High - S Bronx Headstart Site 3 School
    1,110 feet
  5. Frederick Douglass Academy III Secondary School
    1,130 feet
  6. I.S. 219 New Venture School
    1,130 feet
  7. Kappa School
    1,130 feet
  8. Mid-Bronx CCRP Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet
  9. Beanstalk Child Care Academy Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,290 feet
  10. Carl C Icahn Charter Middle School
    1,300 feet
  11. Icahn Charter School 1 School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gouverneur Playground
    220 feet
  2. Flower Garden - Morris II Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    310 feet
  3. Jardin de la Familia Garden
    630 feet
Show all 6
  1. Little Claremont Playground
    990 feet
  2. Drew Playground
    1,250 feet
  3. Crotona Park
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Pauls Episcopal Church House of worship
    130 feet
  2. Our Lady of Victory RC Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Butler Community Center
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    680 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    770 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, 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.