Academy Street & Vermilyea Avenue

Academy Street and Vermilyea Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Inwood, Manhattan. The corner is also named Firefighter Thomas C. Brick Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Harold O. Levy School is 230 feet away, and Inwood Early College for Health and Information Technologies is 230 feet away. The nearest subway, Dyckman St, is about four minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, seven of them schools, and 35 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Dyckman St
1,050 feet · 4 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
870 feet
Broadway/W 204 St · Bx7
Within a walk
26 places
7 schools, 6 religious buildings and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Academy Street & Vermilyea Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Dyckman St, 1,050 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dyckman St A
    1,050 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. A …
Downtown
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. Inwood-207 St A
    0.3 miles
    A
  2. Dyckman St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 204 St, 870 feet away, for the Bx7.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 204 St Bx7 · Shelter
    870 feet
    Bx7
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 45 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 204 St & Vermilyea Ave 22 docks in all
    600 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & Henry Hudson Parkway at Staff Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4880 Broadway Gas station
    940 feet
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10034
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Inwood
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter Thomas C. Brick Way, a co-naming enacted on December 5, 2006 (Local Law 50 of 2006).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 3,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1917 and 1929.

Since 2014 at least 201 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter Thomas C. Brick Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2013 and September 2023; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Academy Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Academy Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Vermilyea Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 9AM-9:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

West side of Vermilyea Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY US POSTAL SERVICE
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 109711 and 110334.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 7 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 fire station
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Harold O. Levy School
    230 feet
  2. High School for Excellence and Innovation School
    230 feet
  3. Inwood Early College for Health and Information Technologies School
    230 feet
Show all 10
  1. Nicholas Cardell Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    390 feet
  2. The Equity Project Charter School
    610 feet
  3. Children’s in Victory Day Care at 644 West 204th Street Pre-K
    670 feet
  4. Amistad Dual Language School
    790 feet
  5. Muscota School
    790 feet
  6. God Is Love Reaching the Heights Pre-K
    890 feet
  7. Washington Heights Academy School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lt. Wm. Tighe Triangle
    1,230 feet
  2. RING - Riverside Inwood Neighborhood Garden
    1,230 feet
  3. Fort Tryon Park Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Quisqueya Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Inwood Library–joseph and Sheila Rosenblatt Building Library
    780 feet
  2. Dyckman House Museum Historic site
    1,030 feet
  3. William Dyckman House Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Dyckman Spanish 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    800 feet
  2. Our Lady Queen Martyrs Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Inwood Post Office Listed historic place
    500 feet
  2. Older adult center at 84 Vermilyea Avenue Older adult center
    520 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 95/Ladder 36 Fire station
    340 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    920 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,040 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    880 feet
  2. Dan's Supermarket Supermarket
    970 feet
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,180 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 places to eat and 21 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Academy Street or Vermilyea Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.