Castle Hill Avenue & Story Avenue

Castle Hill Avenue and Story Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Castle Hill-Unionport, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. St Andrews Church is 920 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Castle Hill Av/Quimby Av, is 250 feet away for the Bx5 and Bx22, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, three of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Castle Hill Av/Quimby Av · Bx5, Bx22
Within a walk
4 places
3 religious buildings and 1 library, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Castle Hill Avenue & Story Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Castle Hill Av/Quimby Av, 250 feet away, for the Bx5 and Bx22.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Castle Hill Av/Quimby Av Bx5, Bx22 · Shelter
    250 feet
    Bx5 Bx22
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx5 …
  2. Bx22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Castle Hill Avenue.

  • 5 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, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 740 Castle Hill Avenue Gas station
    1,310 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
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2020

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
39 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2014 and November 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Castle Hill Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM

West side of Castle Hill Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Story Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Story Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 223293.

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 library

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Castle Hill Library
    550 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Andrews Church House of worship
    920 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and three 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Castle Hill Avenue or Story Avenue.

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