Pugsley Avenue & Homer Avenue

Pugsley Avenue and Homer Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Castle Hill-Unionport, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Bronx Bridges High School is 470 feet away, and Gotham Collaborative High School is 470 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Pugsley Av/Seward Av, is 320 feet away for the Bx36, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, seven of them schools.

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Pugsley Avenue & Homer Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pugsley Av/Seward Av, 320 feet away, for the Bx36.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pugsley Av/Seward Av Bx36 · Shelter
    320 feet
    Bx36
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Pugsley Avenue.

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Bruckner Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 740 Castle Hill Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2023.

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)
Castle Hill-Unionport
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,400 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 1966 and 1969.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Antonia Pantoja Preparatory Academy: a College Board School
    470 feet
  2. Bronx Bridges High School
    470 feet
  3. Bronx Community High School
    470 feet
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  1. Bronx Compass High School
    470 feet
  2. Gotham Collaborative High School
    470 feet
  3. Millennium Art Academy School
    470 feet
  4. P.S. 138 Samuel Randall School
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pugsley Creek Park Nature area
    1,130 feet

Health care

  1. Grand Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cornell Post Office
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    860 feet

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

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, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.