University Avenue & West Burnside Avenue at West 179th Street

University Avenue, West Burnside Avenue and West 179th Street meet at a five-way junction in University Heights (South)-Morris Heights, Bronx. The corner is also named Gregorio Luperón Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 88 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 2,583 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. King of Glory Tabernacle is 650 feet away. The nearest subway, Burnside Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the 4. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
74 hurt
88 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Burnside Av
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · 4
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
University Av/West Burnside Av · Bx3, Bx40, Bx42
Within a walk
14 places
4 religious buildings, 3 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
University Avenue & West Burnside Avenue at West 179th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Burnside Av, 1,150 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Burnside Av 4
    1,150 feet
    4

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 4 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 4 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “How to get to the moon...” (2008) by Laura Battle at the Burnside Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is University Av/West Burnside Av, 40 feet away, for the Bx3, Bx40 and Bx42.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. University Av/West Burnside Av Bx3, Bx40, Bx42 · Shelter · Countdown sign
    40 feet
    Bx3 Bx40 Bx42
    Shelter · Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx3 …
  2. Bx40 …
  3. Bx42 …

Live arrivals

University Avenue carries a bus lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on University Avenue and West Burnside Avenue.

  • 64 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. University Ave & W Burnside Ave 24 docks in all
    140 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at Cedar Avenue & West 179th Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1736 Jerome Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 2478 Jerome Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 88 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 74 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 14 of those hurt, on foot
  • 9 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2,583 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 341st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,689 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on University Avenue1,965840
Southbound on University Avenue618849
Total2,5831,689

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10453
Community board
Bronx Community Board 5
City Council district
14
Police precinct
46
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
University Heights (South)-Morris Heights
Elevation
105 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Gregorio Luperón Way, a co-naming enacted on August 10, 2015 (Local Law 76 of 2015).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,000 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 1921 and 1926.

Since 2014 at least 28 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Gregorio Luperón Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 90 signs on these blocks
  • 21 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and September 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of University Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • No stopping 11 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • Taxi stand 1 sign TAXI STAND MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-10PM

West side of University Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 20 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

North side of West 179th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 college
  • 1 garden
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Charter High School for Law and Social Justice School
    550 feet
  2. M.S. 390 School
    890 feet
  3. P.S. 396 School
    890 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bronx Community College
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Aqueduct Walk Park
    100 feet
  2. Aqueduct Lands Playground
    1,110 feet
  3. Davidson Playground
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. Leave It Better Community Garden
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Francis Martin Library
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. King of Glory Tabernacle House of worship
    650 feet
  2. Calvary Methodist Church House of worship
    1,050 feet
  3. University Heights Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Morris Heights Post Office
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    700 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    940 feet
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Aqueduct Walk Bike Path, University Avenue, West 179th Street or West Burnside Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.