Ridder (East 173rd Street and Boston Road) PS 271: East Bronx Academy for the Future The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York operates Catholic schools in the Bronx. St. Martin of Tours School was in Crotona. After it opened in 1925, its student body was mostly Irish American and Italian American, and most parents were in the working class fields. African-American and Latino families began entering the area in the 1960s. In its heyday it had over 1,000 students. Throughout the school's life, many of tits students originated from immigrant families. The white flight of the 1970s and the increasingly low socioeconomic profile of the neighborhood impacted the school. In 2011 it had nine lay teachers and 104 students. It closed that year. Library The New York Public Library operates the Morrisania branch at 610 East 169th Street. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1908 and was designed by Babb, Cook & Willard. Transportation The following MTA Regional Bus Operations bus routes serve Crotona Park East: : to Parkchester station () or George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal (via 170th Street, Claremont Parkway, 174th Street) : to Fordham Plaza Bus Terminal or Port Morris (via Prospect–Crotona Avenues) : to New York Botanical Garden or Riverbank State Park (via 149th Street–Southern Boulevard) : to Westchester Square station or Third Avenue–138th Street station (via Boston Road–Morris Park Avenue) : to Clason Point (via Rosedale Avenue) : to West Farms Road (Crotona Park East) or George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal (via 167th Street) The following New York City Subway stations serve Crotona Park East: 174th Street () Freeman Street () References External links http://bronxmall.com/commboards/cd3.html Neighborhoods in the Bronx