Lafayette Avenue & Boynton Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Boynton Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, Bronx, at the edge of Soundview Park. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 14 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Dog Run in Soundview Park is 500 feet away, and Soundview Park Field House is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Story Av/Boynton Av, is 960 feet away for the Bx5. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them schools.

Safety record
1 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bronx River Parkway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
960 feet
Story Av/Boynton Av · Bx5
Within a walk
7 places
2 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Boynton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Story Av/Boynton Av, 960 feet away, for the Bx5.

  • 1 route within a ten-minute walk
  1. Story Av/Boynton Av Bx5 · Shelter
    960 feet
    Bx5
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx5 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Story Avenue & Metcalf Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1500 Bruckner Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.4 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 14 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,913th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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-Bruckner-Bronx River; the corner is on the edge of the Soundview Park area
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1962 and 1969.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Boynton Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Boynton Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. Icahn Charter School 7 School
    980 feet
  2. P.S. 093 Albert G. Oliver School
    980 feet
  3. Easter Seals New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Soundview Park
    70 feet
  2. Dog Run in Soundview Park Dog run
    500 feet
  3. Soundview Park Playground
    660 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Soundview Park Field House Recreation center
    620 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The six nearest corners on foot, one of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Boynton Avenue or Lafayette Avenue.

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