Westchester Avenue & Thieriot Avenue

Westchester Avenue and Thieriot Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, Bronx. The corner is also named Kenneth Giordano Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Hugh J. Grant Circle is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, St Lawrence Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them religious buildings, and 34 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
St Lawrence Av
760 feet · 3 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
510 feet
Westchester Av/White Plains Rd · Bx4, Bx4A
Within a walk
10 places
6 religious buildings, 2 parks and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Westchester Avenue & Thieriot Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is St Lawrence Av, 760 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. St Lawrence Av 6
    760 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Parkchester 6
    1,020 feet
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Community (Acer rubrum, Rosa palustris, Smilax rotundifolia, Carya cordiformis),” (2011) by Alison Mortisugu at the St Lawrence Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Westchester Av/White Plains Rd, 510 feet away, for the Bx4 and Bx4A.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Westchester Av/White Plains Rd Bx4, Bx4A
    510 feet
    Bx4 Bx4A

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx4 …
  2. Bx4A …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at East 177th Street & Cross Bronx Expressway, 1,180 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1879 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    540 feet
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 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.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10472
Community board
Bronx Community Board 9
City Council district
18
Police precinct
43
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River
Elevation
35 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: Kenneth Giordano Way (Local Law 121 of 2025, enacted on August 13, 2025) and Joe Torres Way (Local Law 14 of 2021, enacted on January 17, 2021).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Thieriot Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Thieriot Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Westchester Avenue

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

South side of Westchester Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 219823.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 047 John Randolph School
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Virginia Park
    650 feet
  2. Hugh J. Grant Circle
    910 feet
  3. Virginia Playground
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Atonement Episcopal Church House of worship
    770 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witnesses Taylor Ave House of worship
    920 feet
  3. Commonwealth Community Baptist Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    540 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,080 feet
  3. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Thieriot Avenue or Westchester Avenue.

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