Olmstead Avenue & Barrett Avenue

Olmstead Avenue and Barrett Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Castle Hill Park is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Castle Hill Av/Norton Av, is 1,100 feet away for the Bx22, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Barrett Avenue. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1965 and 2001, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Bronx Expressway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,100 feet
Castle Hill Av/Norton Av · Bx22
Within a walk
4 places
1 nature area, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Olmstead Avenue & Barrett Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Castle Hill Av/Norton Av, 1,100 feet away, for the Bx22.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Castle Hill Av/Norton Av Bx22
    1,100 feet
    Bx22

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Barrett Avenue.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway at Zerega Avenue & Cross Bronx Expressway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 440 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 March 2015.

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 two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 500 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 1965 and 2001.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the red pine.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Barrett Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Barrett Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Olmstead Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park
  • 1 recreation center
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Castle Hill Park
    40 feet
  2. Pugsley Creek Park Nature area
    310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Bronx YMCA Recreation center
    1,220 feet

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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Barrett Avenue or Olmstead Avenue.

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