East 177th Street & Watson Avenue Pedestrian Overpass

East 177th Street and Watson Avenue Pedestrian Overpass meet at a three-way junction in Castle Hill-Unionport, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Holy Family Church is 440 feet away. The nearest subway, Castle Hill Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1916 and 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Castle Hill Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Castle Hill Av/Watson Av · Bx22
Within a walk
8 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 177th Street & Watson Avenue Pedestrian Overpass Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Castle Hill Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Castle Hill Av 6
    0.4 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, 310 feet away, for the Bx22.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway westbound at Bruckner Boulevard, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1141 Castle Hill Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2023

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1916 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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
    220 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 12 School
    440 feet
  2. P.S. 036 Unionport School
    570 feet
  3. Lutheran Social Services of Metropolitan New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Church Triangle
    140 feet
  2. Havemeyer Playground
    410 feet

Health care

  1. Rebekah Rehab and Extended Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Family Church House of worship
    440 feet
  2. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,020 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 21 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and 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 East 177th Street or Watson Avenue Pedestrian Overpass.

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