Castle Hill Avenue & Hermany Avenue

Castle Hill Avenue and Hermany Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Castle Hill-Unionport, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 866 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Castle Hill Library is 820 feet away, and Fellowship Covenant Church is 1,150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Castle Hill Av/Hermany Av, is 50 feet away for the Bx5 and Bx22. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, five of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Castle Hill Av/Hermany Av · Bx5, Bx22
Within a walk
7 places
5 religious buildings, 1 library and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Castle Hill Avenue & Hermany Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Castle Hill Av/Hermany Av, 50 feet away, for the Bx5 and Bx22.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Castle Hill Av/Hermany Av Bx5, Bx22
    50 feet
    Bx5 Bx22

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx5 …
  2. Bx22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Castle Hill Avenue.

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway at Zerega Avenue & Cross Bronx Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 740 Castle Hill Avenue Gas station
    1,040 feet
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2026
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 866 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 852nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 322 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10473
Community board
Bronx Community Board 9
City Council district
18
Police precinct
43
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Castle Hill-Unionport
Elevation
43 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2014 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Castle Hill Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Castle Hill Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Hermany Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Hermany Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. P.O. Serrano Playground
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Castle Hill Library
    820 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Andrews Church House of worship
    650 feet
  2. Fellowship Covenant Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    650 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food 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 four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Castle Hill Avenue or Hermany Avenue.

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