City Island Avenue & Bowne Street

City Island Avenue and Bowne Street meet at a four-way crossing in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Beth El Temple City Island is 330 feet away. The nearest bus stop, City Island Av/Beach St, is 410 feet away for the Bx29, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

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City Island Avenue & Bowne Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is City Island Av/Beach St, 410 feet away, for the Bx29.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. City Island Av/Beach St Bx29
    410 feet
    Bx29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Hutchinson River Parkway northbound at Shore Road & Hutchinson River Parkway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 400 City Island Avenue Gas station
    490 feet
  2. 565 City Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    0.3 miles

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2020
  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10464
Community board
Bronx Community Board 10
City Council district
13
Police precinct
45
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 300 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 1925 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Akebono' Yoshino cherry and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bowne Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

East side of City Island Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 library
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 public space

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. City Island Wetlands Nature area
    1,120 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Seafood City Public space
    60 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. City Island Library
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth El Temple City Island House of worship
    330 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    660 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and two 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 of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

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