Watson Avenue & Rosedale Avenue

Watson Avenue and Rosedale 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 Disco King Mario Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 26 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Sotomayor Community Center is 1,030 feet away. The nearest subway, St Lawrence Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
26 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
St Lawrence Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
Watson Av/Croes Av · Bx27
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 2 community centers and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Watson Avenue & Rosedale Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is St Lawrence Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. St Lawrence Av 6
    0.4 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Community (Acer rubrum, Rosa palustris, Smilax rotundifolia, Carya cordiformis),” (2011) by Alison Mortisugu at the St Lawrence Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Watson Av/Croes Av, 420 feet away, for the Bx27.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx27 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Rosedale Avenue and Watson Avenue.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bronx River Parkway northbound at Metcalf Avenue & Bronx River Parkway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1661 Watson Avenue Gas station
    1,090 feet
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 26 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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
17 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Disco King Mario Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,900 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 in 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 90 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Disco King Mario Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rosedale Avenue

  • Ambulances and ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULANCE AMBULETTE ONLY 5AM-11PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Rosedale Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of Watson Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Watson Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 community centers
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Bronxdale Nursery and Kindergarten Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Watson Gleason Playground
    60 feet
  2. Justice Sotomayor Houses Playground
    1,100 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Sotomayor Community Center
    1,030 feet
  2. Community center at Sotomayor Houses Community center
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and five 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Rosedale Avenue or Watson Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.