Story Avenue & Soundview Avenue

Story Avenue and Soundview Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. It is 620 feet to the 43rd Precinct. The nearest bus stop, Story Av/Soundview Av, is 80 feet away for the Bx5, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them community centers, and five places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bronx River Parkway
900 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Story Av/Soundview Av · Bx5
Within a walk
7 places
2 community centers, 1 fire station and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Story Avenue & Soundview Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Story Av/Soundview Av, 80 feet away, for the Bx5.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Story Av/Soundview Av Bx5
    80 feet
    Bx5

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

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Story Avenue & Metcalf Avenue, 900 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 902 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    at this corner
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.6 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 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
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,100 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 1958.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

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

East side of Soundview Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 6 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Soundview Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Story Avenue

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

South side of Story Avenue

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

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 community centers
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Story Playground
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sound View Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,070 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1780 Story Avenue Older adult center
    740 feet
  2. Community center at Monroe Community center
    840 feet
  3. Sotomayor Community Center
    1,160 feet

Fire and police

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

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    480 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    260 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and ten 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 nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Soundview Avenue or Story Avenue.

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