Castle Hill Avenue & Lacombe Avenue

Castle Hill Avenue and Lacombe Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Castle Hill-Unionport, Bronx, at the edge of NYCHA's Castle Hill development. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 308 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Havemeyer Garden Association is 920 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Castle Hill Av/Lacombe Av, is 60 feet away for the Bx22. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them gardens, and one place to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Castle Hill Av/Lacombe Av · Bx22
Within a walk
8 places
2 gardens, 1 ambulance station and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Castle Hill Avenue & Lacombe Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Castle Hill Av/Lacombe Av, 60 feet away, for the Bx22.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Castle Hill Av/Lacombe Av Bx22
    60 feet
    Bx22

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Castle Hill Avenue and Lacombe Avenue.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway at Zerega Avenue & Cross Bronx Expressway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 740 Castle Hill Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes 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 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 308 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,456th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 241 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
29 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,600 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 1959 and 1960.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Castle Hill development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in May 2020, 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 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 gardens
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 community center
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Karol's Urban Farm - Castle Hill Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    410 feet
  2. Havemeyer Garden Association Garden
    920 feet
  3. Randall Playground
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. Pugsley Creek Park Nature area
    1,190 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 3 Ambulance station
    1,170 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Castle Hill Community center
    1,150 feet
  2. Older adult center at 625 Castle Hill Avenue Older adult center
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,200 feet
  2. Golden Mango Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and 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 Castle Hill Avenue or Lacombe Avenue.

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