Williamsbridge-Olinville

Neighborhood · Bronx

Williamsbridge and Olinville sit in the north-central Bronx, on the east side of the Bronx River.

  • 1.30 square miles
  • 61,346 residents, 2020 Census
  • 217 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 11 bus routes

Williamsbridge takes its name from John Williams, an 18th-century farmer whose land on the river's east bank lay nearest the earliest bridge there, and by the 1800s both the crossing and the settlement carried his name; Olinville honors Stephen Olin, a Methodist Episcopal minister. Williamsbridge was incorporated as a village in 1888, and today its streets are lined mostly with owner-occupied two- and three-story homes and some apartment buildings, served by the 2 and 5 trains of the White Plains Road line.

Sources: Williamsbridge, Bronx (Wikipedia); Williamsbridge Oval Playground (NYC Parks); About (Bronx Community Board 12).

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Williamsbridge-Olinville borders seven areas, and White Plains Road holds more of its corners than any other street, 27 of 217.

Street map of Williamsbridge-Olinville, Bronx, outlined among Wakefield-Woodlawn, Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester, Woodlawn Cemetery and Allerton, with its four subway stations and Agnes Haywood Playground.Wakefield-WoodlawnEastchester-Edenwald-BaychesterPelham GardensAllertonBronx ParkNorwoodWoodlawn Cemetery
  • Williamsbridge-Olinville
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 225 St lines 2 5
  • 219 St lines 2 5
  • Gun Hill Rd lines 2 5 accessible
  • Burke Av lines 2 5

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Williamsbridge-Olinville.

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

Local bus routes

  • Bx8
  • Bx16
  • Bx28
  • Bx30
  • Bx31
  • Bx38
  • Bx39
  • Bx41
  • Bx41-SBS
  • T117

Express bus route

  • BxM11

Safety record

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

  • 1,997 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 9.2 a corner, on average
  • 8.0 the average Bronx corner
  • 16 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 48 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
37
Accessible pedestrian signals
33
Enhanced crossings
5
Safety Improvement Projects
5
Turn calming
3
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.

  • 3,830 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 9,510 school-zone speed camera tickets at 14 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Paulding Avenue & East 222nd Street, 1,962
Most speed tickets
Bronx Boulevard & Rosewood Street, 2,010

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 61,346 residents in Williamsbridge-Olinville, about 47,200 per square mile.

  • 22,867 homes, 2020 Census
  • 3,454 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 5,741 residential lots hold buildings from 1940 or earlier, and 48% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's Gun Hill development lies wholly or partly within Williamsbridge-Olinville.

Parks

Parkland
5.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Agnes Haywood Playground (1.3 acres), Marcus Garvey Square (1.2 acres) and Rienzi Playground (1.2 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
4,587 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
White Plains Road, with 27 of the area's 217
Height above sea level
From 65 feet at Barker Avenue & Duncomb Avenue to 176 feet at Paulding Avenue & East 221st Street
Honorary street names
13 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists 22 schools in Williamsbridge-Olinville.

Public schools
12
Charter and private schools
10

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 1,195 major felonies at places in Williamsbridge-Olinville.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Williamsbridge-Olinville

  • 1,034 major felonies in 2024
  • 3,707 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Williamsbridge-Olinville, the NYPD recorded another 179 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 22.4 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Williamsbridge-Olinville.

Map of Williamsbridge-Olinville: 16 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 Williamsbridge-Olinville, 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 Williamsbridge-Olinville, most about 1,250 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 Williamsbridge-Olinville 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 Williamsbridge-Olinville and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
47th
Major felonies recorded at places in Williamsbridge-Olinville, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 479 major felonies at places in Williamsbridge-Olinville, against 602 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.