Lafayette Avenue & Underhill Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Underhill Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Bronx corner. Space Time Playground is 50 feet away. The nearest bus stop, White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av, is 590 feet away for the Bx5, Bx36 and Bx39, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and six places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Lafayette Avenue.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av · Bx5, Bx36, Bx39
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 2 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Underhill Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av, 590 feet away, for the Bx5, Bx36 and Bx39.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av Bx5, Bx36, Bx39
    590 feet
    Bx5 Bx36 Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx5 …
  2. Bx36 …
  3. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Lafayette Avenue.

  • 19 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. 902 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.4 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 four crashes at this corner, the median for a Bronx corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 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
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,900 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 1977 and 1988.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lafayette Avenue

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

East side of Underhill Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

West side of Underhill Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 post office
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Space Time Playground
    50 feet
  2. Story Playground
    1,120 feet

Health care

  1. Grand Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cornell Post Office
    760 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    320 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and five 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lafayette Avenue or Underhill Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.