Broadway & Isham Street

Broadway and Isham Street meet at a five-way junction in Inwood, Manhattan. The corner is also named Inwood's Heroes of 9/11 Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Good Shepherd Church Broadway is 180 feet away, and Inwood Hill Park is 760 feet away. The nearest subway, Inwood-207 St, is about a minute on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them schools, and 43 places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Inwood-207 St
80 feet · 1 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
20 feet
Broadway/Isham St · Bx12, Bx12 SBS
Within a walk
17 places
4 schools, 3 park features and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & Isham Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Inwood-207 St, 80 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Inwood-207 St A
    80 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Downtown
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. 207 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1
  2. 215 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “At the Start... At Long Last...” (1999) by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville at the Inwood-207 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Isham St, 20 feet away, for the Bx12 and Bx12 SBS.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Isham St Bx12, Bx12 SBS · Shelter
    20 feet
    Bx12 Bx12 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx12 …
  2. Bx12 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 59 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Isham St & Broadway 29 docks in all
    90 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway southbound at West Fordham Road, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4880 Broadway Gas station
    1,030 feet
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 21 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2015

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
33 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Inwood's Heroes of 9/11 Way, a co-naming enacted on December 21, 2004 (Local Law 63 of 2004).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,600 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 1922 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Inwood's Heroes of 9/11 Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2023 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 11 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-1PM

North side of Isham Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Isham Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 211th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 110580 and 113364.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated one lamppost.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 park features
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd New York City School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    440 feet
  2. Good Shepherd School
    520 feet
  3. School in the Square Elementary School
    550 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 098 Shorac Kappock School
    600 feet
  2. Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School
    1,120 feet
  3. God Is Love Reaching the Heights Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Isham Park
    190 feet
  2. Ginko Tree & Stairs in Isham Park Park feature
    220 feet
  3. Boulders South Lawn in Isham Park Park feature
    570 feet
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  1. Inwood Hill Park
    760 feet
  2. 9 11 Memorial Rock in Isham Park Park feature
    890 feet
  3. Emerson Playground
    1,040 feet
  4. Homers Dog Run in Inwood Hill Park Dog run
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dyckman House Museum Historic site
    850 feet
  2. William Dyckman House Listed historic place
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Good Shepherd Church Broadway House of worship
    180 feet
  2. Dyckman Spanish 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,140 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    330 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    450 feet
  3. Apple Bank Bank branch
    680 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    590 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 43 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Broadway, Isham Street or West 211th Street.

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