Watson Avenue & Thieriot Avenue

Watson Avenue and Thieriot Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, Bronx, at the edge of NYCHA's Sotomayor Houses development. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 263 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Justice Sotomayor Houses Playground is 130 feet away. The nearest subway, St Lawrence Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them schools, and two places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
St Lawrence Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
910 feet
White Plains Rd/Watson Av · Bx36, Bx39
Within a walk
11 places
5 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Watson Avenue & Thieriot 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 nine 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 …

Also within a walk

  1. Parkchester 6
    0.5 miles
    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 White Plains Rd/Watson Av, 910 feet away, for the Bx36 and Bx39.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. White Plains Rd/Watson Av Bx36, Bx39
    910 feet
    Bx36 Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx36 …
  2. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Watson Avenue.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway westbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Underhill Avenue at Bruckner Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1879 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2244 Westchester Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 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 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 263 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,525th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 25 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
18 feet above sea level

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 1930 and 1968.

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

Since 2014 at least 205 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Thieriot Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Thieriot Avenue

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

North side of Watson Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Watson Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Birch Family Services-Watson Ave School
    720 feet
  2. Watson Avenue Ecc Pre-K
    720 feet
  3. Bronxdale Nursery and Kindergarten Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    800 feet
Show all 7
  1. Brilla College Prep Charter High School
    1,000 feet
  2. Girls Prep CS - Bronx HS School
    1,000 feet
  3. Girls Preparatory Charter School of New York School
    1,000 feet
  4. Vertex Partnership Academies CHS School
    1,000 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Justice Sotomayor Houses Playground
    130 feet

Health care

  1. Bronx Center for Rehabilitation & Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Sotomayor Houses Community center
    380 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    1,200 feet
  2. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and four 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 Thieriot 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.