Lafayette Avenue & Pugsley Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Pugsley Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Bronx Community High School is 550 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Lafayette Av/Pugsley Av, is 50 feet away for the Bx5, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, seven of them schools, and two places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
2 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Lafayette Av/Pugsley Av · Bx5
Within a walk
11 places
7 schools, 2 playgrounds and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Pugsley Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

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

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lafayette Av/Pugsley 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 and Pugsley Avenue.

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. 740 Castle Hill Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.1 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 seven crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1965 and 1978.

Since 2014 at least 154 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Pugsley Avenue

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

West side of Pugsley Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Antonia Pantoja Preparatory Academy: a College Board School
    550 feet
  2. Bronx Bridges High School
    550 feet
  3. Bronx Community High School
    550 feet
Show all 7
  1. Bronx Compass High School
    550 feet
  2. Gotham Collaborative High School
    550 feet
  3. Millennium Art Academy School
    550 feet
  4. P.S. 138 Samuel Randall School
    800 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. P.O. Serrano Playground
    920 feet
  2. Space Time Playground
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cornell Post Office
    760 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    330 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 Pugsley 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.