Story Avenue & Metcalf Avenue

Story Avenue and Metcalf Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx, at the edge of Soundview Park. The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Clason Point Gardens development. Between 2021 and 2025, 35 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. It is 530 feet to the 43rd Precinct. The nearest bus stop, Story Av/Fteley Av, is 130 feet away for the Bx5, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and seven places to eat.

Safety record
20 hurt
35 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bronx River Parkway
a ramp starts at this corner
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Story Av/Fteley Av · Bx5
Within a walk
4 places
1 fire station, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Story Avenue & Metcalf Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

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

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Story Av/Fteley 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.

By car

A ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound starts at this corner.

  1. 902 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    1,060 feet
  2. 967 Kelly Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.6 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 35 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 20 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 8 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2022

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; the corner is on the edge of the Soundview Park area
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 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 1941 and 1967.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Clason Point Gardens development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 111 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Metcalf Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Metcalf Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 4 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Story Avenue

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

South side of Story Avenue

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

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 fire station
  • 1 park
  • 1 police station
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Soundview Park
    890 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 96/Ladder 54 Fire station
    530 feet
  2. 43rd Precinct Police station
    530 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,020 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bronx River Parkway, Metcalf Avenue or Story Avenue.

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