Fish Avenue & Givan Avenue

Fish Avenue and Givan Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester, Bronx. The corner is also named Linton J. Cummings Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Ramah Christian Center Church is 840 feet away. The nearest subway, Gun Hill Rd, is about six minutes on foot, for the 5. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Gun Hill Rd
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 5
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
East Gun Hill Rd/Burke Av · Bx28, Bx38
Within a walk
11 places
10 religious buildings and 1 day care or pre-K site, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Fish Avenue & Givan Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Gun Hill Rd 5
    0.3 miles
    5

Next trains at this station

Eastchester
1 line
  1. 5 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 5 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is East Gun Hill Rd/Burke Av, 900 feet away, for the Bx28 and Bx38.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. East Gun Hill Rd/Burke Av Bx28, Bx38 · Shelter
    900 feet
    Bx28 Bx38
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx28 …
  2. Bx38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the New England Thruway southbound at Baychester Avenue & East 222nd Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 1255 East Gun Hill Road Gas station
    1,190 feet
  2. 3333 Boston Road Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.3 miles
  3. 3329 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10469
Community board
Bronx Community Board 12
City Council district
12
Police precinct
47
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester
Elevation
106 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Linton J. Cummings Square, a co-naming enacted on November 10, 1998 (Local Law 53 of 1998).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 900 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 1920 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Linton J. Cummings Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2020 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Fish Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Fish Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Givan Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Givan Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Little Stars Three Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ramah Christian Center Church House of worship
    840 feet
  2. Burke Ave Baptist Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Fish Avenue or Givan Avenue.

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