Watson Avenue & Croes Avenue

Watson Avenue and Croes Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, Bronx, at the edge of NYCHA's Sotomayor Houses development. The corner is also named Juan Antonio Rossy Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 109 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Soundview Post Office is 890 feet away. The nearest subway, Morrison Av-Soundview, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places and one place to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Morrison Av-Soundview
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Watson Av/Croes Av · Bx27
Within a walk
8 places
4 religious buildings, 2 playgrounds and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Watson Avenue & Croes Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Morrison Av-Soundview, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Morrison Av-Soundview 6
    0.4 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. St Lawrence Av 6
    0.4 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Land Between Two Waters” (2010) by Maria Cristalli & Marc Brown at the Morrison Av-Soundview station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Watson Av/Croes Av, 120 feet away, for the Bx27.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Watson Av/Croes Av Bx27
    120 feet
    Bx27

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx27 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Watson Avenue.

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Metcalf Avenue & Bronx River Parkway, 820 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1661 Watson Avenue Gas station
    560 feet
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.4 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2023.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 109 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,743rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 8 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10472
Community board
Bronx Community Board 9
City Council district
18
Police precinct
43
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Juan Antonio Rossy Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1953.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Sotomayor Houses development.

Since 2014 at least 326 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Juan Antonio Rossy Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and July 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Croes Avenue

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Croes Avenue

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

North side of Watson Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Watson Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Sound Dale Center for Early Childhood Education Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Watson Gleason Playground
    310 feet
  2. Parque De Los Ninos Playground
    1,010 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Soundview Post Office
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,320 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and six food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Croes Avenue or Watson Avenue.

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