Bruckner Boulevard & Leland Avenue

Bruckner Boulevard and Leland Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Birch Family Services-Watson Ave is 1,020 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bruckner Blvd/White Plains Rd, is 410 feet away for the BxM8, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and six places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
Bruckner Blvd/White Plains Rd · BxM8
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bruckner Boulevard & Leland Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bruckner Blvd/White Plains Rd, 410 feet away, for the BxM8.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bruckner Blvd/White Plains Rd BxM8 · Shelter
    410 feet
    BxM8
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. BxM8 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Underhill Avenue at Bruckner Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 902 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10472
Community board
Bronx Community Board 9
City Council district
18
Police precinct
43
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1953 and 1966.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and January 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bruckner Boulevard

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Leland Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Leland Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Birch Family Services-Watson Ave School
    1,020 feet
  2. Watson Avenue Ecc Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  3. P.S. 583 School
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bronxdale Nursery and Kindergarten Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Justice Sotomayor Houses Playground
    1,210 feet

Health care

  1. Bronx Center for Rehabilitation & Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    580 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    130 feet
  2. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six 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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bruckner Boulevard or Leland Avenue.

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