Castle Hill Avenue & Watson Avenue

Castle Hill Avenue and Watson Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Castle Hill-Unionport, Bronx. The corner is also named Yvette Nicole Moreno Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Church Triangle is 40 feet away, and the Engine 64/Ladder 47 firehouse is 1,120 feet away. The nearest subway, Castle Hill Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Castle Hill Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Castle Hill Av/Watson Av · Bx22
Within a walk
9 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Castle Hill Avenue & Watson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Castle Hill Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Castle Hill Av 6
    0.3 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

Pelham Bay
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bronx: Heart, Homeland” (2015) by Priscila De Carvalho at the Castle Hill Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Castle Hill Av/Watson Av, 40 feet away, for the Bx22.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Castle Hill Av/Watson Av Bx22 · Shelter
    40 feet
    Bx22
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at East 177th Street & Ellis Avenue at Cross Bronx Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1141 Castle Hill Avenue Gas station
    520 feet
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 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)
Castle Hill-Unionport
Elevation
44 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Yvette Nicole Moreno Place, a co-naming enacted on June 3, 2003 (Local Law 34 of 2003).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 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 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Yvette Nicole Moreno Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Castle Hill Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Castle Hill Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

North side of Watson Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Watson Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Church Triangle.

  1. Unionport Memorial Stele by John I. Boyd, 1924
    70 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 12 School
    160 feet
  2. P.S. 036 Unionport School
    290 feet
  3. Lutheran Social Services of Metropolitan New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Church Triangle
    40 feet
  2. Havemeyer Playground
    690 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Castle Hill Library
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Family Church House of worship
    180 feet
  2. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    740 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 64/Ladder 47 Fire station
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. SuperFresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Castle Hill Avenue or Watson Avenue.

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