Underhill Avenue & Gildersleeve Avenue

Underhill Avenue and Gildersleeve Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Harding Park is 160 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Soundview Av/Gildersleeve Av, is 530 feet away for the Bx27 and Bx39. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them parks. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

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Underhill Avenue & Gildersleeve Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Soundview Av/Gildersleeve Av, 530 feet away, for the Bx27 and Bx39.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Soundview Av/Gildersleeve Av Bx27, Bx39
    530 feet
    Bx27 Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx27 …
  2. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 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, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 440 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.4 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2021.

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
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and April 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Gildersleeve Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground
  • 1 public space
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Harding Park
    160 feet
  2. Harding Park Playground
    230 feet
  3. Soundview Park
    300 feet
Show all 4
  1. Harding Park Community Garden
    480 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Shorehaven Public space
    950 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three 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 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

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