Lafayette Avenue & Metcalf Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Metcalf Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx, at the edge of NYCHA's Clason Point Gardens development. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 1,333 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Soundview Park is 80 feet away, and Soundview Park Playground is 950 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Story Av/Fteley Av, is 940 feet away for the Bx5. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them playgrounds, and one place to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bronx River Parkway
810 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
Story Av/Fteley Av · Bx5
Within a walk
8 places
2 playgrounds, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Metcalf Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Story Av/Fteley Av, 940 feet away, for the Bx5.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Story Av/Fteley Av Bx5 · Shelter
    940 feet
    Bx5
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Lafayette Avenue.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Story Avenue & Metcalf Avenue, 810 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 902 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.7 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported nine 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 foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,333 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 612th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 790 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on Metcalf Avenue821505
Southbound on Metcalf Avenue512285
Total1,333790

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
20 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 1962.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 102 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Metcalf Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 10 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 8 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Icahn Charter School 7 Middle School
    1,040 feet
  2. P.S. 107 School
    1,040 feet
  3. Ciditty Kiddie Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Soundview Park
    80 feet
  2. Metcalf Playground
    920 feet
  3. Soundview Park Playground
    950 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1674 Seward Avenue Older adult center
    1,020 feet
  2. Soundview Community Center
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lafayette Avenue or Metcalf Avenue.

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