Lafayette Avenue & Wilcox Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Wilcox Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Throgs Neck-Schuylerville, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Life Skills Preschool Clarence Ave is 880 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Dean Av/Lafayette Av, is 520 feet away for the Bx8, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and two places to eat.

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Lafayette Avenue & Wilcox Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Dean Av/Lafayette Av, 520 feet away, for the Bx8.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dean Av/Lafayette Av Bx8
    520 feet
    Bx8

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx8 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Throgs Neck Expressway northbound at Lafayette Avenue & Ellsworth Avenue, 520 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 2884 Bruckner Boulevard Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1133 Zerega Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.8 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10465
Community board
Bronx Community Board 10
City Council district
13
Police precinct
45
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Throgs Neck-Schuylerville
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1978.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Life Skills Preschool Clarence Ave School
    880 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

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