Underhill Avenue & Lacombe Avenue

Underhill Avenue and Lacombe Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Woodrow Wilson Triangle is 700 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Soundview Av/Lacombe Av, is 270 feet away for the Bx27, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them schools, and one place to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Soundview Av/Lacombe Av · Bx27
Within a walk
15 places
6 schools, 5 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Underhill Avenue & Lacombe Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Soundview Av/Lacombe Av, 270 feet away, for the Bx27.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Soundview Av/Lacombe Av Bx27
    270 feet
    Bx27

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx27 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 5 of them on-street corrals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Bruckner Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 440 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    310 feet
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2023.

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
26 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1931 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in September 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Underhill Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Woodrow Wilson Square.

  1. Clason Point World War I Memorial Stele by James S.J. Novelli, 1928
    730 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Archimedes Academy for Math, Science and Technology Applications School
    970 feet
  2. The Bronx Mathematics Preparatory School
    970 feet
  3. Women's Academy of Excellence School
    970 feet
Show all 7
  1. Claire Heureuse Community Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  2. Holy Cross School
    1,040 feet
  3. P.S. 069 Journey Prep School
    1,040 feet
  4. Grand Concourse Academy Charter School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Woodrow Wilson Triangle
    700 feet
  2. Pugsley Creek Park Nature area
    810 feet
  3. Randall Community Garden
    970 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Cross Church House of worship
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    500 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and nine 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 Lacombe Avenue or Underhill Avenue.

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