Highbridge

Neighborhood · Bronx

Highbridge sits on hilly ground above the Harlem River, between the river and Jerome Avenue from the Macombs Dam Bridge to the Cross Bronx Expressway.

  • 0.47 square miles
  • 32,456 residents, 2020 Census
  • 118 street corners
  • 6 bus routes

It takes its name from the High Bridge, which began carrying Croton Aqueduct water across the river in 1848 and is the city's oldest standing bridge; in the mid- to late 1800s wealthy families built large homes overlooking the river, and a village grew up around a local railroad station. The bridge is open again to walkers and cyclists, and the neighborhood's Art Deco apartment houses include the Park Plaza Apartments on Jerome Avenue, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sources: Highbridge, Bronx (Wikipedia); Raoul Wallenberg Playground (NYC Parks); The Bronx (The Bronx County Historical Society); High Bridge (New York City) (Wikipedia).

Map

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Highbridge borders four areas, and Major Deegan Expressway holds more of its corners than any other street, 17 of 118.

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  • Highbridge
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on six routes stop in or at the edge of Highbridge.

  • 6 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx6
  • Bx11
  • Bx13
  • Bx18A
  • Bx18B
  • Bx35

Safety record

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

  • 1,402 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 11.9 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 27 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 28 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
19
Accessible pedestrian signals
15
Enhanced crossings
4
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Turn calming
1
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
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
  • 2,357 school-zone speed camera tickets at three corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Jerome Avenue & East 164th Street, 1,681

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 32,456 residents in Highbridge, about 69,100 per square mile.

  • 11,969 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,093 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 618 residential lots hold buildings from 1927 or earlier, and 64% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's Highbridge Gardens development lies wholly or partly within Highbridge.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
20.8 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Macombs Dam Park (9.8 acres), Merriam Playground (2.9 acres) and Bridge Park (2.2 acres)
Designated landmarks
The American Female Guardian Society, Public School 91, the Highbridge Community Church and the Noonan Plaza Apartments, among others

Streets and trees

Trees
2,000 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, thornless honeylocust and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
Major Deegan Expressway, with 17 of the area's 118
Height above sea level
From 15 feet at Jerome Avenue & West 166th Street to 147 feet at West 170th Street & Merriam Avenue
Honorary street names
2 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists nine schools and one library in Highbridge.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
4
Library
High Bridge Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, ten bike-share stations stand in Highbridge. The City's public art inventory lists two works in the area: Macombs Dam Park Fountain (1908) and Highbridge World War I Memorial (1923).

  • 10 bike-share stations
  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 521 major felonies at places in Highbridge.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Highbridge

  • 553 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,864 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Highbridge, the NYPD recorded another 75 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 18.4 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Highbridge.

Map of Highbridge: 4 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 Highbridge, 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 Highbridge, 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 Highbridge 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 Highbridge and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
44th
Major felonies recorded at places in Highbridge, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 267 major felonies at places in Highbridge, against 274 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.