Lafayette Avenue & Clason Point Lane

Lafayette Avenue and Clason Point Lane meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx, at the edge of NYCHA's Clason Point Gardens development. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Sound View Presbyterian Church is 1,050 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rosedale Av/Lafayette Av, is 740 feet away for the Bx27, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them community centers, and five places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Lafayette Avenue.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bronx River Parkway
1,270 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
740 feet
Rosedale Av/Lafayette Av · Bx27
Within a walk
9 places
2 community centers, 2 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Clason Point Lane Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rosedale Av/Lafayette Av, 740 feet away, for the Bx27.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rosedale Av/Lafayette Av Bx27
    740 feet
    Bx27

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx27 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Lafayette Avenue.

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Story Avenue & Metcalf Avenue, 1,270 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 902 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.6 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

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 January 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)
Soundview-Clason Point
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 1941 and 1967.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Clason Point Gardens development.

Since 2014 at least 32 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in August 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Clason Point Lane

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 community centers
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Icahn Charter School 7 Middle School
    840 feet
  2. P.S. 107 School
    840 feet
  3. Ciditty Kiddie Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Soundview Park
    530 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sound View Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,050 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Monroe Community center
    1,180 feet
  2. Soundview Community Center
    1,240 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 96/Ladder 54 Fire station
    1,100 feet
  2. 43rd Precinct Police station
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Clason Point Lane or Lafayette Avenue.

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