Westchester Avenue & Westchester Avenue Bridge

Westchester Avenue and Westchester Avenue Bridge meet at a three-way junction in Crotona Park East, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Starlight Park is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Whitlock Av, is about two minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them parks, and 15 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Whitlock Av
590 feet · 2 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
Westchester Av/Whitlock Av · Bx4, Bx4A, Bx27
Within a walk
10 places
4 parks, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Westchester Avenue & Westchester Avenue Bridge Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Whitlock Av, 590 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Whitlock Av 6
    590 feet
    6

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Elder Av 6
    0.3 miles
    6
  2. Freeman St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bronx River View” (2010) by Barbara Grygutis at the Whitlock Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Westchester Av/Whitlock Av, 540 feet away, for the Bx4, Bx4A and Bx27.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Westchester Av/Whitlock Av Bx4, Bx4A, Bx27
    540 feet
    Bx4 Bx4A Bx27

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx4 …
  2. Bx4A …
  3. Bx27 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Westchester Avenue and Westchester Avenue Bridge.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Home St & Westchester Ave 21 docks in all
    630 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1441 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    700 feet
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10459
Community board
Bronx Community Board 9
City Council district
17
Police precinct
41 and 43 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crotona Park East
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 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 1925 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 park features
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Arcadia Daycare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    860 feet
  2. Genius Therapy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    860 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Starlight Park
    40 feet
  2. Concrete Plant Park
    100 feet
  3. Bronx River Trail Nature area
    470 feet
Show all 8
  1. Daniel Boone Playground
    650 feet
  2. Silos in Concrete Plant Park Park feature
    960 feet
  3. Hoppers in Concrete Plant Park Park feature
    1,100 feet
  4. Bryant Triangle
    1,180 feet
  5. Freeman Triangle
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Westchester Avenue or Westchester Avenue Bridge.

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