O'Brien Avenue & Newman Avenue

O'Brien Avenue and Newman Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Harding Park Playground is 1,030 feet away. The nearest bus stop, White Plains Rd/Obrien Av, is 330 feet away for the Bx39, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and two places to eat. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
White Plains Rd/Obrien Av · Bx39
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
O'Brien Avenue & Newman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is White Plains Rd/Obrien Av, 330 feet away, for the Bx39.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. White Plains Rd/Obrien Av Bx39
    330 feet
    Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on O'Brien Avenue.

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Bruckner Expressway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 440 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2018.

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
21 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 sign on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of O'Brien Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 playground
  • 1 public space

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pugsley Creek Park Nature area
    320 feet
  2. Harding Park
    780 feet
  3. Harding Park Playground
    1,030 feet
Show all 4
  1. Soundview Park
    1,160 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Shorehaven Public space
    1,170 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Newman Avenue or O'Brien Avenue.

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