Fairfax Avenue & Fairmount Avenue

Fairfax Avenue and Fairmount Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The nearest bus stop, Layton Av/Vincent Av, is 950 feet away for the Bx8, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1960, almost all in houses of one or two.

Map

Layers
Fairfax Avenue & Fairmount Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Layton Av/Vincent Av, 950 feet away, for the Bx8.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Layton Av/Vincent Av Bx8
    950 feet
    Bx8

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx8 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Throgs Neck Expressway northbound at Lafayette Avenue & Ellsworth Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3349 East Tremont Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1133 Zerega Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.6 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10465
Community board
Bronx Community Board 10
City Council district
13
Police precinct
45
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 400 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 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the silver linden.

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

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