Lafayette Avenue & Hunts Point Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Hunts Point Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Hunts Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 66 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Hunts Point Post Office is 280 feet away. The nearest subway, Hunts Point Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Hunts Point Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
Hunts Point Av/Coster St · Bx6, Bx6 SBS
Within a walk
22 places
8 religious buildings, 6 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Hunts Point Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Hunts Point Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Hunts Point Av 6
    0.3 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Longwood Av 6
    0.5 miles
    6

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hunts Point Av/Coster St, 260 feet away, for the Bx6 and Bx6 SBS.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hunts Point Av/Coster St Bx6, Bx6 SBS
    260 feet
    Bx6 Bx6 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx6 …
  2. Bx6 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Lafayette Avenue.

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lafayette Ave & Hunts Point Ave 22 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Hunts Point Avenue, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 870 Garrison Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 880 Garrison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    1,100 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 66 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,807th 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
10474
Community board
Bronx Community Board 2
City Council district
17
Police precinct
41
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hunts Point
Elevation
82 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 2,300 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 1920 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 33 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 106 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and July 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hunts Point Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Hunts Point Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 52 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1908 and 1909.

  1. Sunnyslope Designated landmark
    380 feet
  2. The BankNote; Lafayette Academy Designated landmark
    790 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Leaders in Our Neighborhood CHS School
    350 feet
  2. St Ignatius School
    810 feet
  3. Sunshine Devel - la Peninsula HS School
    1,000 feet
Show all 7
  1. La Peninsula Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  2. Bronx Academy for Multi-Media School
    1,100 feet
  3. Leaders in Our Neighborhood Charter School
    1,100 feet
  4. P.S. 048 Joseph R. Drake School
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Julio Carballo Fields Field
    330 feet
  2. Julio Carballo Fields Playground
    770 feet
  3. Hunts Point Playground
    1,010 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Hunts Point Post Office
    280 feet
  2. Hunts Point Recreation Center
    890 feet
  3. Community center at Hunts Point Avenue Rehab Community center
    990 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 3/Engine 94/Ladder 48 Fire station
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    660 feet
  2. Food Fair Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hunts Point Avenue or Lafayette Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.