Story Avenue & Bolton Avenue

Story Avenue and Bolton Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Soundview Academy for Culture and Scholarship is 400 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Story Av/Bolton Av, is 50 feet away for the Bx5, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them schools, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
1,290 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Story Av/Bolton Av · Bx5
Within a walk
6 places
3 schools, 2 playgrounds and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Story Avenue & Bolton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Story Av/Bolton Av, 50 feet away, for the Bx5.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Story Av/Bolton Av Bx5 · Shelter
    50 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

  • 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, 1,290 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 902 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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
14 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,200 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 1988.

Since 2014 at least 154 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2019 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bolton Avenue

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

West side of Bolton Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Story Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of Story Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 131 Albert Einstein School
    400 feet
  2. Soundview Academy for Culture and Scholarship School
    400 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 4 School
    400 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Space Time Playground
    520 feet
  2. Story Playground
    820 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cornell Post Office
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ShopRite Supermarket
    1,200 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    40 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and six 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 Bolton Avenue or Story Avenue.

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