Bedford Park

Neighborhood · Bronx

Bedford Park sits in the northwest Bronx beside the Jerome Park Reservoir, with Mosholu Parkway to the north and Webster Avenue to the east.

  • 0.88 square miles
  • 55,521 residents, 2020 Census
  • 105 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 17 bus routes

Developers built a planned suburb of 40 villas here in the late 19th century, and the Jerome Park Racetrack, opened in 1866, gave way to the reservoir, completed in 1906. The Grand Concourse was finished in 1914 and the Jerome Avenue subway arrived in 1917, and the area became known for its schools, among them the Bronx High School of Science and Lehman College, whose campus, then Hunter College's Bronx branch, briefly hosted the United Nations in 1946.

Sources: Bedford Park, Bronx (Wikipedia); Bedford Park (Bronx Community Board 7).

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Bedford Park borders four areas, and Jerome Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 16 of 105.

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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Bedford Park Blvd-Lehman College lines 4
  • Bedford Park Blvd lines B D accessible
  • Kingsbridge Rd lines 4
  • Kingsbridge Rd lines B D accessible

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on 17 routes stop in or at the edge of Bedford Park.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 15 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx1
  • Bx2
  • Bx3
  • Bx9
  • Bx10
  • Bx22
  • Bx25
  • Bx26
  • Bx28
  • Bx32
  • Bx34
  • Bx38
  • Bx41
  • Bx41-SBS
  • BX95

Express bus routes

  • BxM3
  • BxM4

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Bronx corner.

  • 1,115 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 10.6 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 1 corner with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 23 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
20
Accessible pedestrian signals
16
Turn calming
2
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 18,001 school-zone speed camera tickets at six corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Sedgwick Avenue & Saxon Avenue, 11,705

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 55,521 residents in Bedford Park, about 63,100 per square mile.

  • 21,029 homes, 2020 Census
  • 4,091 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,119 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 83% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
22.9 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Harris Park (14.6 acres), Jerome Park (4.2 acres) and Fort Independence Playground (2.7 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Bedford Park Congregational Church and the High Pumping Station
Historic district
Perry Avenue Historic District, wholly or partly within Bedford Park

Streets and trees

Trees
2,876 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, pin oak and London planetree
Street with the most corners
Jerome Avenue, with 16 of the area's 105
Height above sea level
From 58 feet at Webster Avenue & East 195th Street to 160 feet at East 206th Street & St Georges Crescent
Honorary street names
9 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists 23 schools in Bedford Park.

Public schools
16
Charter and private schools
7

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 25 bike-share stations stand in Bedford Park.

  • 25 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 786 major felonies at places in Bedford Park.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Bedford Park

  • 675 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,251 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Bedford Park, the NYPD recorded another 273 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 19.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Bedford Park.

Police precincts
52nd (most of the area), 50th
Major felonies recorded at places in Bedford Park, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 374 major felonies at places in Bedford Park, against 359 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.