Lafayette Avenue & Olmstead Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Olmstead Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Castle Hill-Unionport, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, two school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. 138 Samuel Randall is 240 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Lafayette Av/Olmstead Av, is 50 feet away for the Bx5, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Lafayette Avenue.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Lafayette Av/Olmstead Av · Bx5
Within a walk
4 places
2 religious buildings, 1 playground and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Olmstead Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lafayette Av/Olmstead Av, 50 feet away, for the Bx5.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lafayette Av/Olmstead Av Bx5
    50 feet
    Bx5

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 Bruckner Expressway eastbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Bruckner Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 740 Castle Hill Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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 one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2022.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,953rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 58 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)
Castle Hill-Unionport
Elevation
40 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1935 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Olmstead Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Olmstead Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 138 Samuel Randall School
    240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. P.O. Serrano Playground
    60 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Andrews Church House of worship
    830 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    960 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    1,190 feet

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

See every intersection along Lafayette Avenue or Olmstead Avenue.

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