Lafayette Avenue & Croes Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Croes Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx, at the edge of NYCHA's Clason Point Gardens development. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 118 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Icahn Charter School 7 Middle School is 750 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rosedale Av/Lafayette Av, is 660 feet away for the Bx27. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them community centers, and five places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bronx River Parkway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
660 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 & Croes Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rosedale Av/Lafayette Av, 660 feet away, for the Bx27.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx27 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Lafayette Avenue.

  • 12 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, 0.3 miles 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

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported seven crashes at this corner, more 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 July 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 118 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,728th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 2 more 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-Clason Point
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

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 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Croes Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Croes Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING 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
    750 feet
  2. P.S. 107 School
    750 feet
  3. Ciditty Kiddie Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    800 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Soundview Park
    620 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sound View Presbyterian Church House of worship
    960 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Monroe Community center
    1,100 feet
  2. Soundview Community Center
    1,150 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 96/Ladder 54 Fire station
    1,180 feet
  2. 43rd Precinct Police station
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Croes Avenue or Lafayette Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.