Ampere Avenue & Bay Shore Avenue

Ampere Avenue and Bay Shore Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island, Bronx. The corner is also named Detective Joseph G. Lemm Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Pelham Bay Park is 870 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Research Av/Ampere Av, is 810 feet away for the Bx24, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and four places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
810 feet
Research Av/Ampere Av · Bx24
Within a walk
4 places
1 nature area, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ampere Avenue & Bay Shore Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Research Av/Ampere Av, 810 feet away, for the Bx24.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Research Av/Ampere Av Bx24
    810 feet
    Bx24

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx24 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Bruckner Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3065 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 1515 Williamsbridge Road Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10465
Community board
Bronx Community Board 10
City Council district
13
Police precinct
45
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island

This corner is also named Detective Joseph G. Lemm Way, a co-naming enacted on July 29, 2018 (Local Law 139 of 2018).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

Eighteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Detective Joseph G. Lemm Way.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Palmer Inlet Nature area
    820 feet
  2. Pelham Bay Park
    870 feet
  3. Huntington Woods in Pelham Bay Park Park feature
    920 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Pelham Bay Assembly of God Church House of worship
    730 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ampere Avenue or Bay Shore Avenue.

Sources: NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.