Westchester Avenue & St Peters Avenue

Westchester Avenue and St Peters Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Westchester Square, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, five 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 560 feet away, and Westchester Square Plaza is 1,100 feet away. The nearest subway, Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av
790 feet · 3 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Westchester Av/Saint Peters Av · Bx4
Within a walk
15 places
4 religious buildings, 2 listed historic places and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Westchester Avenue & St Peters Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av, 790 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av 6
    790 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
    830 feet
    6
  2. Castle Hill Av 6
    0.5 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/Saint Peters Av, 50 feet away, for the Bx4.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Westchester Av/Saint Peters Av Bx4
    50 feet
    Bx4

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 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, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 91 Westchester Square Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2020

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
28 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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 1927 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of St Peters Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of St Peters Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Westchester Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

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
    560 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Owen F. Dolen Park.

  1. Seat Sculpture by David Saunders, 1987
    820 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. X012 Lewis and Clark School
    910 feet
  2. Life Skills Preschool Westchester Sq School
    1,110 feet
  3. Promesa Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet
Show all 4
  1. American Barber Institute Trade or language school
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Pearly Gates Playground
    350 feet
  2. Owen F. Dolen Park
    690 feet
  3. Ferris Family Burial Plot Cemetery
    850 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Westchester Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,100 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Houses of worship

  1. St Peters Church Landmark
    180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Owen Dolen Recreation Center
    990 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    750 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,200 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along St Peters Avenue or Westchester Avenue.

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