Leland Avenue & Story Avenue

Leland Avenue and Story Avenue meet at a three-way junction 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 770 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Story Av/Thieriot Av, is 170 feet away for the Bx5, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them schools, and five places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1965 and 1968, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Story Av/Thieriot Av · Bx5
Within a walk
7 places
4 schools, 2 playgrounds and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Leland Avenue & Story Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Story Av/Thieriot Av, 170 feet away, for the Bx5.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx5 …

Live arrivals

Story Avenue carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, 7am to 9pm on weekdays.

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Bruckner Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 902 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 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 January 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
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 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 1965 and 1968.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Leland Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Leland Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Story Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 131 Albert Einstein School
    650 feet
  2. Soundview Academy for Culture and Scholarship School
    650 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 4 School
    650 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 100 Isaac Clason School
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Story Playground
    310 feet
  2. Space Time Playground
    770 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1780 Story Avenue Older adult center
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    560 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 Leland Avenue or Story Avenue.

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