University Avenue & West Burnside Avenue

University Avenue and West Burnside Avenue meet at a three-way junction in University Heights (South)-Morris Heights, Bronx. The corner is also named Jose Pena Gomez Boulevard by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Charter High School for Law and Social Justice is 150 feet away, and Morton Playground is 1,130 feet away. The nearest subway, Burnside Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the 4. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Burnside Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 4
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
University Av/W 179 St · Bx3, Bx40, Bx42
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
University Avenue & West Burnside Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Burnside Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Burnside Av 4
    0.3 miles
    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/W 179 St, 360 feet away, for the Bx3, Bx40 and Bx42.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. University Av/W 179 St Bx3, Bx40, Bx42
    360 feet
    Bx3 Bx40 Bx42

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.

  • 54 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
    640 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at Cedar Avenue & West 179th Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1764 University Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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
102 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jose Pena Gomez Boulevard, a co-naming enacted on July 9, 2014 (Local Law 34 of 2014).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 2,800 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 1923 and 1926.

Since 2014 at least 67 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jose Pena Gomez Boulevard.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 77 signs on these blocks
  • 18 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2023 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 14 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

North side of West Burnside Avenue

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Charter High School for Law and Social Justice School
    150 feet
  2. M.S. 390 School
    390 feet
  3. P.S. 396 School
    390 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Aqueduct Walk Park
    570 feet
  2. Morton Playground
    1,130 feet
  3. Eternal Life Community Garden
    1,270 feet
Show all 4
  1. Beanstalk Playground
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Calvary Methodist Church House of worship
    560 feet
  2. King of Glory Tabernacle House of worship
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    450 feet
  2. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  3. Antillana Market Place Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 12 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, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along University Avenue or West Burnside Avenue.

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