Castle Hill-Unionport

Neighborhood · Bronx

Castle Hill-Unionport covers most of the Castle Hill peninsula in the southeast Bronx, between Pugsley Creek and Westchester Creek, along with Unionport, its section north of Lafayette Avenue.

  • 1.18 square miles
  • 41,420 residents, 2020 Census
  • 165 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 12 bus routes

The name goes back to a fortified Siwanoy village that Adriaen Block, a 17th-century explorer for the New Netherland Company, thought looked like a castle, and the Cromwell family held the land, then called Cromwell's Neck, until the late 1700s. Small houses and truck farms followed, early two- and three-story homes clustered near the Pelham Line on Westchester Avenue, and large apartment complexes rose across the neck from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Sources: Castle Hill Playground (NYC Parks); Pugsley Creek Park (NYC Parks); Castle Hill, Bronx (Wikipedia).

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Castle Hill-Unionport borders six areas, and Castle Hill Avenue and East 177th Street hold more of its corners than any other street, 23 each of 165.

Street map of Castle Hill-Unionport, Bronx, outlined among Soundview-Clason Point, Ferry Point Park-St. Raymond Cemetery, Westchester Square and Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, with its two subway stations and P.O. Serrano Playground.Westchester SquareThrogs Neck-SchuylervilleFerry Point Park-St. Raymond CemeterySoundview-Clason PointSoundview-Bruckner-Bronx RiverParkchester
  • Castle Hill-Unionport
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Castle Hill Av lines 6
  • Parkchester lines 6 accessible

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on 12 routes stop in or at the edge of Castle Hill-Unionport.

  • 2 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx4
  • Bx4A
  • Bx5
  • Bx11
  • Bx22
  • Bx36
  • Bx39
  • Q44-SBS
  • Q50
  • T103

Express bus routes

  • BxM6
  • BxM8

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Bronx corner.

  • 1,163 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.0 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 24 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 24 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
17
Leading pedestrian intervals
14
Turn calming
4
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 5,621 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Lafayette Avenue & Brush Avenue, 3,364

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 41,420 residents in Castle Hill-Unionport, about 35,100 per square mile.

  • 14,321 homes, 2020 Census
  • 999 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,379 residential lots hold buildings from 1940 or earlier, and 45% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's Castle Hill development lies wholly or partly within Castle Hill-Unionport.

Parks

Parkland
7.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
P.O. Serrano Playground (2.7 acres), Hugh J. Grant Circle (1.3 acres) and Randall Playground (1 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,687 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and Japanese flowering cherry
Street with the most corners
Castle Hill Avenue, with 23 of the area's 165
Height above sea level
From 8 feet at Hutchinson River Parkway & Schley Avenue to 55 feet at Castle Hill Avenue & Virgil Place
Honorary street names
10 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists nine schools and one library in Castle Hill-Unionport.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
4
Library
Castle Hill Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Castle Hill-Unionport: Unionport Memorial (1924).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 628 major felonies at places in Castle Hill-Unionport.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Castle Hill-Unionport

  • 644 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,977 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Castle Hill-Unionport, the NYPD recorded another 167 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 19.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Castle Hill-Unionport.

Map of Castle Hill-Unionport: 11 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Castle Hill-Unionport, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Castle Hill-Unionport, most about 1,250 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Castle Hill-Unionport are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Castle Hill-Unionport and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
43rd (most of the area), 45th
Major felonies recorded at places in Castle Hill-Unionport, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 248 major felonies at places in Castle Hill-Unionport, against 337 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.