Gildersleeve Avenue & Betts Avenue

Gildersleeve Avenue and Betts Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Pugsley Creek Park is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Soundview Av/Gildersleeve Av, is 0.3 miles away for the Bx27 and Bx39. Within a five-minute walk are three public places. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, almost all in houses of one or two.

Map

Layers
Gildersleeve Avenue & Betts Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Soundview Av/Gildersleeve Av, 0.3 miles away, for the Bx27 and Bx39.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Soundview Av/Gildersleeve Av Bx27, Bx39
    0.3 miles
    Bx27 Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx27 …
  2. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Bruckner Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 440 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.5 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 April 2017.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10473
Community board
Bronx Community Board 9
City Council district
18
Police precinct
43
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Soundview-Clason Point

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Robin Hill' serviceberry and the black locust.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 garden
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pugsley Creek Park Nature area
    40 feet
  2. Waterfront Community Garden
    50 feet
  3. Clason Point Park
    1,150 feet

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

Nearby corners

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

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