White Plains Road & Cornell Avenue

White Plains Road and Cornell Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Soundview Park is 800 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Soundview Av/Gildersleeve Av, is 810 feet away for the Bx27 and Bx39. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them parks. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1990 and 2005, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
1.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
810 feet
Soundview Av/Gildersleeve Av · Bx27, Bx39
Within a walk
5 places
2 parks, 1 garden and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
White Plains Road & Cornell Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Soundview Av/Gildersleeve Av, 810 feet away, for the Bx27 and Bx39.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Soundview Av/Gildersleeve Av Bx27, Bx39
    810 feet
    Bx27 Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx27 …
  2. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Bruckner Expressway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 440 Soundview Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2017.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10473
Community board
Bronx Community Board 9
City Council district
18
Police precinct
43
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Soundview-Clason Point
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1990 and 2005.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground
  • 1 public space

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Harding Park
    530 feet
  2. Soundview Park
    800 feet
  3. Harding Park Community Garden
    930 feet
Show all 4
  1. Harding Park Playground
    1,140 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Shorehaven Public space
    60 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 21 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cornell Avenue or White Plains Road.

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