Pelham Parkway is a working- and middle-class residential neighborhood geographically located in the center of the Bronx, a borough of New York City in the United States.

A number of buildings have been converted to cooperative ownership and the business section on White Plains Road and Lydig Avenue is a beehive of activity.

The center of the parkway, prior to World War II, was closed off on Sunday mornings for professional bicycle racing.

[11] The neighborhood has a significantly diverse population including Albanians (the largest concentration in New York City), Arabs, African Americans, Bosnians, Dominicans, Filipino, Germans, Guyanese, Indians, Irish, Italians, Jamaicans, Jews, Muslims, Pakistanis, Puerto Ricans, and Russians.

[16] In 2018, an estimated 21% of Pelham Parkway and Morris Park residents lived in poverty, compared to 25% in all of the Bronx and 20% in all of New York City.

Based on this calculation, as of 2018[update], Pelham Parkway and Morris Park are considered high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying.

In the last decade, construction of modern 2 and 3 unit row-houses and apartment buildings have increased the percentage of owners versus renters.

The six-story apartment houses in which they reside provide comfortable living at affordable prices and stand in large numbers throughout the metropolitan area.

This commonality of the speculative six-story elevator apartment building has long left this type of construction under-recognized and unappreciated.

Though many of these dwellings stand alone or in large concentration; a survey of similar communities affirm that the area is one of few truly cohesive neighborhoods of this typology, offering an unusually compact and well-preserved stretch of these buildings.

It is run by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies as a community center and provides social services, support networks, English Language classes, free lunches for the elderly, and a gym for all neighborhood residents.

[13]: 14 The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Pelham Parkway and Morris Park is 0.0074 milligrams per cubic metre (7.4×10−9 oz/cu ft), less than the city average.

[13]: 13  In Pelham Parkway and Morris Park, 32% of residents are obese, 14% are diabetic, and 31% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.

[27] Pelham Parkway and Morris Park generally have a lower rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018[update].

[13]: 6  The percentage of Pelham Parkway and Morris Park students excelling in math rose from 32% in 2000 to 48% in 2011, though reading achievement remained constant at 37% during the same time period.

[28] Pelham Parkway and Morris Park's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is slightly higher than the rest of New York City.

[14]: 24 (PDF p. 55) [13]: 6  Additionally, 74% of high school students in Pelham Parkway and Morris Park graduate on time, about the same as the citywide average of 75%.

[13]: 6 Christopher Columbus High School is in the neighborhood, on the north side of Pelham Parkway, in 2014 it permanently closed.

The New York Public Library (NYPL)'s Pelham Parkway-Van Nest branch is located at 2147 Barnes Avenue.