Middletown Road & Stadium Avenue

Middletown Road and Stadium Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island, Bronx, at the edge of Pelham Bay Park. The corner is also named Joe DeSimone Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. South Meadow in Pelham Bay Park is 710 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kennellworth Pl/Ampere Av, is 1,110 feet away for the Bx24. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places and four places to eat.

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Middletown Road & Stadium Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kennellworth Pl/Ampere Av, 1,110 feet away, for the Bx24.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kennellworth Pl/Ampere Av Bx24
    1,110 feet
    Bx24

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx24 …

Live arrivals

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. 3065 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 1515 Williamsbridge Road Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    2 miles

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10465
Community board
Bronx Community Board 28
City Council district
13
Police precinct
45
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island; the corner is on the edge of the Pelham Bay Park area
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Joe DeSimone Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 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 1925 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the hedge maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Joe DeSimone Way.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 park features
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 park
  • 1 recreation center
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Huntington Woods in Pelham Bay Park Park feature
    30 feet
  2. Pelham Bay Park
    90 feet
  3. South Meadow in Pelham Bay Park Park feature
    710 feet
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  1. Dog Run in Pelham Bay Park Dog run
    910 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. American Boy Statue Monument or memorial
    850 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Pelham Bay Assembly of God Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Aileen Ryan Recreation Recreation center
    780 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 nearest corners on foot, five of them 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 Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.