Fordham Heights

Neighborhood · Bronx

Fordham Heights covers the blocks just south of Fordham Road in the west Bronx, between Jerome and Webster avenues, with the Grand Concourse running through them.

  • 0.26 square miles
  • 32,099 residents, 2020 Census
  • 62 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 11 bus routes

It forms the southern part of Fordham, whose name dates to the colonial Manor of Fordham, in place from 1671 to 1762, and the area stayed largely rural until about 1900, when New York City began to expand. The crossing of Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse became the major commercial hub of the northwest Bronx, and just south of it stands John Eberson's Loew's Paradise Theater, an atmospheric movie palace that opened in 1929 and whose exterior and interior are both city landmarks.

Sources: The City of New York, Borough of the Bronx, Community Board 5: Boundaries, Zip Codes and Mass Transit (2019) (Bronx Community Board 5); Fordham, Bronx (Wikipedia); Loew's Paradise Theater (LP-1891), Designation List 279, April 15, 1997 (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Paradise Theater (Bronx) (Wikipedia).

Map

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Fordham Heights borders four areas, and Jerome Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, ten of 62.

Street map of Fordham Heights, Bronx, outlined among University Heights (North)-Fordham, Mount Hope, Belmont and University Heights (South)-Morris Heights, with its four subway stations.University Heights (North)-FordhamBelmontMount HopeUniversity Heights (South)-Morris Heights
  • Fordham Heights
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Fordham Rd lines 4 accessible
  • Fordham Rd lines B D
  • 183 St lines 4
  • 182-183 Sts lines B D

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Fordham Heights.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Bx1
  • Bx2
  • Bx9
  • Bx12
  • Bx12-SBS
  • Bx22
  • Bx32
  • Bx34
  • Bx41
  • Bx41-SBS

Express bus route

  • BxM4

Safety record

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

  • 1,246 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 20.1 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 2 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 35 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
32
Accessible pedestrian signals
23
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Turn calming
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 18,223 school-zone speed camera tickets at four corners
  • 7,350 bus-lane camera tickets at three corners
Most speed tickets
Grand Concourse & East 188th Street, 10,085
Most bus-lane tickets
Webster Avenue & East 188th Street, 2,825

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 32,099 residents in Fordham Heights, about 123,500 per square mile.

  • 10,627 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,270 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 504 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 84% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
0.9 acre of Slattery Playground, as NYC Parks maps it within Fordham Heights
Designated landmark
The Loew's Paradise Theater

Streets and trees

Trees
1,405 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, pin oak and Japanese zelkova
Street with the most corners
Jerome Avenue, with ten of the area's 62
Height above sea level
From 41 feet at Webster Avenue & East 184th Street to 137 feet at Morris Avenue & Field Place
Honorary street names
10 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists seven schools in Fordham Heights.

Public schools
6
Charter or private school
1

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, eight bike-share stations stand in Fordham Heights. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Honor 2000 (2000).

  • 8 bike-share stations
  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 466 major felonies at places in Fordham Heights.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Fordham Heights

  • 511 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,807 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Fordham Heights, the NYPD recorded another 291 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 23.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Fordham Heights.

Map of Fordham Heights: 7 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Fordham Heights, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Fordham Heights, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Fordham Heights are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Fordham Heights and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
46th (most of the area), 52nd
Major felonies recorded at places in Fordham Heights, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 301 major felonies at places in Fordham Heights, against 219 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.