Cruger Avenue & Bronxdale Avenue

Cruger Avenue and Bronxdale Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, Bronx. The corner is also named Paulina Nrecaj Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 2,909 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Brady Playground is 650 feet away. The nearest subway, Bronx Park East, is about five minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bronx Park East
1,260 feet · 5 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
White Plains Rd/Bronxdale Av · Bx39
Within a walk
7 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Cruger Avenue & Bronxdale Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bronx Park East, 1,260 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Bronx Park East 2, 5
    1,260 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Pelham Pkwy 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “B is for Birds in the Bronx” (2006) by Candida Alvarez at the Bronx Park East station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is White Plains Rd/Bronxdale Av, 330 feet away, for the Bx39.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. White Plains Rd/Bronxdale Av Bx39
    330 feet
    Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Bronxdale Avenue.

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Boston Road & Bronx River Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2090 Bronxdale Avenue Gas station
    670 feet
  2. 2071 White Plains Road Charging for electric cars, 22 Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    1,050 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2,909 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 67th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 1,126 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10462
Community board
Bronx Community Board 11
City Council district
13
Police precinct
49
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pelham Parkway-Van Nest
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Paulina Nrecaj Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,100 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 1929 and 1952.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Paulina Nrecaj Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2022 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bronxdale Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Bronxdale Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 5 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Cruger Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING IN TUNNEL W/ 7 O'CLOCK ARROW

West side of Cruger Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING IN TUNNEL W/ 5 O'CLOCK ARROW

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Bronx High School for the Visual Arts School
    880 feet
  2. Companion SVCS - Assisting Wellness Trade or language school
    880 feet
  3. P.S. 105 Sen Abraham Bernstein School
    950 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brady Playground
    650 feet
  2. Bronx Park
    710 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    820 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,180 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bronxdale Avenue or Cruger Avenue.

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