Story Avenue & Colgate Avenue

Story Avenue and Colgate Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 190 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Bronx Charter School for the Arts Middle School is 300 feet away, and Soundview Park is 880 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Story Av/Colgate Av, is 130 feet away for the Bx5. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them schools.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bronx River Parkway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Story Av/Colgate Av · Bx5
Within a walk
11 places
6 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Story Avenue & Colgate Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Story Av/Colgate Av, 130 feet away, for the Bx5.

  • 1 route within a ten-minute walk
  1. Story Av/Colgate Av Bx5 · Shelter
    130 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

A marked bike lane runs on Colgate Avenue and Story Avenue.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Story Avenue & Metcalf Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1500 Bruckner Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 190 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,645th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 111 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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-Bruckner-Bronx River
Elevation
14 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.

Since 2014 at least 435 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2021 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Colgate Avenue

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 7AM-11AM

West side of Colgate Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Story Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of Story Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 11 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. Bronx Arena High School
    300 feet
  2. Bronx Charter School for the Arts Middle School
    300 feet
  3. Easter Seals Ny, Inc- 1520 Story Ave School
    440 feet
Show all 8
  1. These Our Treasures Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    460 feet
  2. Easter Seals Ny, Inc- 1530 Story Ave School
    670 feet
  3. Easter Seals New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet
  4. Icahn Charter School 7 School
    1,080 feet
  5. P.S. 093 Albert G. Oliver School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Soundview Park
    880 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Bruckner Boulevard Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,070 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Soundview Park Field House Recreation center
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Colgate Avenue or Story Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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 and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.