Zerega Avenue & Gleason Avenue

Zerega Avenue and Gleason Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Westchester Square, Bronx. The corner is also named Kenneth Pontillo Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. In 2025, 1,898 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Castle Hill Little League Field is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Zerega Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the 6. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Zerega Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 6
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Cross Bronx Expwy Service Rd/Zerega Av · Q44 SBS
Within a walk
4 places
2 religious buildings, 1 field and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Zerega Avenue & Gleason Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Zerega Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Zerega Av 6
    0.3 miles
    6

Next trains at this station

Pelham Bay
1 line
  1. 6 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 6 …

Also within a walk

  1. Castle Hill Av 6
    0.5 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Garden of Earthly Delights” (2015) by Jaime Arredondo at the Zerega Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cross Bronx Expwy Service Rd/Zerega Av, 0.3 miles away, for the Q44 SBS.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cross Bronx Expwy Service Rd/Zerega Av Q44 SBS
    0.3 miles
    Q44 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway at Zerega Avenue & Cross Bronx Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2276 Westchester Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1133 Zerega Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    420 feet
  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 ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,898 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 449th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,164 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on Gleason Avenue1,502811
Southbound on Zerega Avenue396353
Total1,8981,164

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10462
Community board
Bronx Community Board 9
City Council district
18
Police precinct
43
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Westchester Square
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Kenneth Pontillo Way, a co-naming enacted on December 20, 2010 (Local Law 3 of 2011).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Kenneth Pontillo Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2014 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Gleason Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Gleason Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Zerega Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of Zerega Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 field
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./M.S. 194 School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Castle Hill Little League Field
    50 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, 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 Gleason Avenue or Zerega Avenue.

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