West Farms

Neighborhood · Bronx

Along the west bank of the Bronx River, West Farms stretches from Bronx Park south to the Cross Bronx Expressway.

  • 0.42 square miles
  • 20,147 residents, 2020 Census
  • 98 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 11 bus routes

Its name dates to the 1660s, when two settlers from Connecticut acquired the land and called it West Farms to set it apart from Westchester Village. Carpet factories, a grist mill and a lumber mill grew up in the village, which split from Westchester in 1846 and joined New York City in 1874. On East 180th Street lies the West Farms Soldiers Cemetery, the Bronx's oldest public burial ground for veterans, where the first burial took place in 1815 and some 40 veterans of four wars now rest.

Sources: Old West Farms Soldier Cemetery (LP-0624), Designation Number 5, August 2, 1967 (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); West Farms, Bronx (Wikipedia); Morris Avenue Historic District Designation Report (LP-1392), Designation List 185, July 15, 1986 (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

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West Farms borders five areas, and East 179th Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 11 of 98.

Street map of West Farms, Bronx, outlined among Bronx Park, Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River and Tremont, with its three subway stations and Bronx Park.Bronx ParkPelham Parkway-Van NestSoundview-Bruckner-Bronx RiverCrotona Park EastTremont
  • West Farms
  • 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

  • Bronx Park East lines 2 5
  • E 180 St lines 2 5 accessible
  • West Farms Sq-E Tremont Av lines 2 5

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of West Farms.

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

Local bus routes

  • Bx9
  • Bx11
  • Bx19
  • Bx21
  • Bx36
  • Bx40
  • Bx42
  • Q44-SBS
  • T113
  • T117

Express bus route

  • BxM10

Safety record

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

  • 833 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 8.5 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 8 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 20 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
16
Accessible pedestrian signals
14
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
  • 14,819 school-zone speed camera tickets at six corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
East 177th Street & Bronx Park Avenue, 13,844

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 20,147 residents in West Farms, about 48,000 per square mile.

  • 7,847 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,747 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 442 residential lots hold buildings from 1931 or earlier, and 56% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
7.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Bronx Park (3.8 acres), Vidalia Park (2 acres) and West Farms Rapids (1 acre)
Designated landmark
The New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad, Administration Building

Streets and trees

Trees
1,500 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, Japanese zelkova and London planetree
Street with the most corners
East 179th Street, with 11 of the area's 98
Height above sea level
From 18 feet at West Farms Road & Rodman Place to 81 feet at East 182nd Street & Crotona Parkway
Honorary street names
2 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists eight schools and one library in West Farms.

Public schools
7
Charter or private school
1
Library
West Farms Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, ten bike-share stations stand in West Farms. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Happy Land Memorial (1995).

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

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 393 major felonies at places in West Farms.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in West Farms

  • 374 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,357 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of West Farms, the NYPD recorded another 216 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 30.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in West Farms.

Map of West Farms: 6 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 West Farms, 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 West Farms, 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 West Farms 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 West Farms and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
48th (most of the area), 49th, 43rd
Major felonies recorded at places in West Farms, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 193 major felonies at places in West Farms, against 206 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.