Lafayette Avenue & Leland Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Leland Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Story Playground is 870 feet away, and Cornell Post Office is 1,020 feet away. The nearest bus stop, White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av, is 850 feet away for the Bx5, Bx36 and Bx39, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them schools, and two places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
850 feet
White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av · Bx5, Bx36, Bx39
Within a walk
8 places
4 schools, 2 playgrounds and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Leland Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av, 850 feet away, for the Bx5, Bx36 and Bx39.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av Bx5, Bx36, Bx39
    850 feet
    Bx5 Bx36 Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx5 …
  2. Bx36 …
  3. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Lafayette Avenue.

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Bruckner Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

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
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,900 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 1968 and 1977.

Since 2014 at least 117 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Leland Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Leland Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 post office
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 100 Isaac Clason School
    590 feet
  2. J.H.S. 131 Albert Einstein School
    930 feet
  3. Soundview Academy for Culture and Scholarship School
    930 feet
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  1. Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 4 School
    930 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Space Time Playground
    290 feet
  2. Story Playground
    870 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sound View Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cornell Post Office
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    570 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and four 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lafayette Avenue or Leland Avenue.

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