Lafayette Avenue & Stickball Boulevard

Lafayette Avenue and Stickball Boulevard meet at a three-way junction in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Cornell Post Office is 180 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Lafayette Av/White Plains Rd, is 240 feet away for the Bx5 and Bx36, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, nine of them schools, and seven places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Lafayette Avenue.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
Lafayette Av/White Plains Rd · Bx5, Bx36
Within a walk
12 places
9 schools, 1 nursing home or hospice and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Stickball Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lafayette Av/White Plains Rd, 240 feet away, for the Bx5 and Bx36.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx5 …
  2. Bx36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Lafayette Avenue.

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Bruckner Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 740 Castle Hill Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five 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 May 2025.

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
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,600 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 1969 and 1977.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in January 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 schools
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Antonia Pantoja Preparatory Academy: a College Board School
    630 feet
  2. Bronx Bridges High School
    630 feet
  3. Bronx Community High School
    630 feet
Show all 9
  1. Bronx Compass High School
    630 feet
  2. Gotham Collaborative High School
    630 feet
  3. Millennium Art Academy School
    630 feet
  4. J.H.S. 131 Albert Einstein School
    1,260 feet
  5. Soundview Academy for Culture and Scholarship School
    1,260 feet
  6. Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 4 School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Space Time Playground
    640 feet

Health care

  1. Grand Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    780 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cornell Post Office
    180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    360 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lafayette Avenue or Stickball Boulevard.

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.