White Plains Road & Lafayette Avenue

White Plains Road and Lafayette Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Soundview-Clason Point, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 30 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Grand Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is 690 feet away, and Gotham Collaborative High School is 930 feet away. The nearest bus stop, White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av, is 50 feet away for the Bx5, Bx36 and Bx39, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, nine of them schools, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
20 hurt
30 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Bruckner Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av · Bx5, Bx36, Bx39
Within a walk
12 places
9 schools, 1 nursing home or hospice and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
White Plains Road & Lafayette Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av, 50 feet away, for the Bx5, Bx36 and Bx39.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. White Plains Rd/Lafayette Av Bx5, Bx36, Bx39
    50 feet
    Bx5 Bx36 Bx39

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx5 …
  2. Bx36 …
  3. Bx39 …

Live arrivals

White Plains Road carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, 7am to 9pm on weekdays.

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Lafayette Avenue and White Plains Road.

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Bruckner Expressway eastbound at Bruckner Boulevard & Bruckner Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 740 Castle Hill Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2 Castle Hill Avenue Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 30 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 20 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

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 four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,700 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 1977.

Since 2014 at least 154 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 6 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of White Plains Road

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of White Plains Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 schools
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Antonia Pantoja Preparatory Academy: a College Board School
    930 feet
  2. Bronx Bridges High School
    930 feet
  3. Bronx Community High School
    930 feet
Show all 9
  1. Bronx Compass High School
    930 feet
  2. Gotham Collaborative High School
    930 feet
  3. Millennium Art Academy School
    930 feet
  4. J.H.S. 131 Albert Einstein School
    960 feet
  5. Soundview Academy for Culture and Scholarship School
    960 feet
  6. Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 4 School
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Space Time Playground
    340 feet

Health care

  1. Grand Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    690 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cornell Post Office
    250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Bruckner Commons Shopping center
    70 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, 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 Lafayette Avenue or White Plains Road.

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