Howe Avenue & Norton Avenue

Howe Avenue and Norton Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Castle Hill-Unionport, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Castle Hill Park is 710 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Castle Hill Av/Norton Av, is 350 feet away for the Bx22, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1965 and 2000, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Castle Hill Av/Norton Av · Bx22
Within a walk
3 places
1 nature area, 1 park and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Howe Avenue & Norton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Castle Hill Av/Norton Av, 350 feet away, for the Bx22.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Castle Hill Av/Norton Av Bx22
    350 feet
    Bx22

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx22 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway at Zerega Avenue & Cross Bronx Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 740 Castle Hill Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1,250 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 October 2019.

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)
Castle Hill-Unionport
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 800 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 1965 and 2000.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park
  • 1 recreation center

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Castle Hill Park
    710 feet
  2. Pugsley Creek Park Nature area
    820 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Bronx YMCA Recreation center
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Howe Avenue or Norton Avenue.

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