Like other parkways in New York City, commercial traffic is not permitted on the surface section east of US 1, however it can use the paralleling service roads.

A bikeway, which signed as a portion of the East Coast Greenway travels alongside the parkway for its entire length.

The parkway continues east through the Morris Park neighborhood, passing and intersecting with Williamsbridge Road, which leads to the Jacobi Medical Center.

[3] After Stillwell Avenue and leaving Morris Park, the parkway becomes an expressway, crossing over the Northeast Corridor tracks and entering Pelham Bay.

Less than 0.5 miles (0.80 km) later, the parkway enters Pelham Bay Park and has another cloverleaf interchange with I-95 (the New England Thruway).

This junction serves as the eastern terminus of Pelham Parkway, which continues east into the park as an expressway known as Shore Road.

The space between the westbound main and frontage roads on the north side is used as a park, with benches and walking paths.

In the 1870s, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted envisioned a greenbelt across the Bronx, consisting of parks and parkways that would align with existing geography.

[5] The original Pelham Parkway was built in 1911 and opened in 1912 as a small, two-lane road in today's westbound lanes through what was then rural Westchester County.