Westchester Avenue & Commerce Avenue

Westchester Avenue and Commerce Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Westchester Square, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Van Schaick Free Reading Room, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 180 feet away, and Pelham Bay Little League is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av, is about a minute on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av
170 feet · 1 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
20 feet
Westchester Av/Benson St · Bx21
Within a walk
17 places
4 religious buildings, 3 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Westchester Avenue & Commerce Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av, 170 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av 6
    170 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

Pelham Bay
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Zerega Av 6
    0.3 miles
    6
  2. Middletown Rd 6
    0.4 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “City of Glass” (1993) by Romare Bearden and “The Land Between Open Water” (2024) by Shervone Neckles at the Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Westchester Av/Benson St, 20 feet away, for the Bx21.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Westchester Av/Benson St Bx21
    20 feet
    Bx21

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx21 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Hutchinson River Parkway southbound at Westchester Avenue & Hutchinson River Parkway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 91 Westchester Square Gas station
    850 feet
  2. 1515 Williamsbridge Road Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10461
Community board
Bronx Community Board 10
City Council district
18
Police precinct
45
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Westchester Square
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 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 1927 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2024 and May 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Commerce Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 12AM-5AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Parallel parking only 4 signs PARALLEL PARKING ONLY

West side of Commerce Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 12AM-5AM
  • Parallel parking only 2 signs PARALLEL PARKING ONLY

East side of Lane Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Westchester Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Westchester Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 210175, 220714 and 221898.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Gothic Revival. They were built between 1853 and 1883.

  1. Van Schaick Free Reading Room Designated landmark
    180 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Owen F. Dolen Park.

  1. Seat Sculpture by David Saunders, 1987
    210 feet
  2. Westchester Square Memorial Stele by John Oakman, 1925
    450 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 parks
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 1 cemetery
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. American Barber Institute Trade or language school
    520 feet
  2. Life Skills Preschool Westchester Sq School
    550 feet
  3. P.S. X012 Lewis and Clark School
    720 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Owen F. Dolen Park
    70 feet
  2. Ferris Family Burial Plot Cemetery
    470 feet
  3. The Pearly Gates Playground
    970 feet
Show all 5
  1. Pelham Bay Little League Park
    1,140 feet
  2. Samuel H. Young Park
    1,260 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Westchester Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    470 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Westchester Square Station (Dual System IRT) Listed historic place
    30 feet
  2. St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex Listed historic place
    740 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Peters Church Landmark
    500 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Owen Dolen Recreation Center
    360 feet
  2. Westchester Post Office
    910 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    190 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    790 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,290 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    650 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Commerce Avenue, Lane Avenue or Westchester Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.