Lafayette Avenue & Thieriot Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Thieriot Avenue meet at a four-way crossing 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. Sound View Presbyterian Church is 900 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Story Av/Thieriot Av, is 900 feet away for the Bx5, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and two places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Lafayette Avenue.

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
900 feet
Story Av/Thieriot Av · Bx5
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 2 playgrounds and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Thieriot Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Story Av/Thieriot Av, 900 feet away, for the Bx5.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Story Av/Thieriot Av Bx5 · Shelter
    900 feet
    Bx5
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx5 …

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
    0.4 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.5 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 July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2021

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 1,100 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 1989.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

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

North side of Lafayette Avenue

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

South side of Lafayette Avenue

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

East side of Thieriot Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 100 Isaac Clason School
    330 feet
  2. J.H.S. 131 Albert Einstein School
    1,190 feet
  3. Soundview Academy for Culture and Scholarship School
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 4 School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Space Time Playground
    550 feet
  2. Story Playground
    610 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sound View Presbyterian Church House of worship
    900 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cornell Post Office
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    830 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and eight food stores.

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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lafayette Avenue or Thieriot Avenue.

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