Dyckman Street & Sherman Avenue

Dyckman Street and Sherman Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Washington Heights (North), Manhattan. The corner is also named Hector Rivera Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 54 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. The Engine 95/Ladder 36 firehouse is 880 feet away. The nearest subway, Dyckman St, is about three minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places and 52 places to eat.

Safety record
32 hurt
54 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Dyckman St
900 feet · 3 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Dyckman St/Sherman Av · M100, BxM1
Within a walk
20 places
6 schools, 5 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dyckman Street & Sherman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Dyckman St, 900 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Dyckman St 1
    1,010 feet
    1
  2. 207 St 1
    0.5 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Dyckman St/Sherman Av, 50 feet away, for the M100 and BxM1.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dyckman St/Sherman Av M100, BxM1
    50 feet
    M100 BxM1

Next buses at this stop

  1. M100 …
  2. BxM1 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Dyckman Street and Sherman Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sherman Ave & Thayer St 21 docks in all
    320 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. 242 Dyckman Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 54 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 31 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 13 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2017
  • Turn calming, May 2022
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10040
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (North)
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Hector Rivera Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2019 (Local Law 24 of 2019).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 4,100 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 1920 and 1927.

Since 2014 at least 18 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Hector Rivera Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 53 signs on these blocks
  • 21 different rules
  • 9 active meters
  • 5 pay-by-cell zones

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

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 7pm on Sherman Avenue (west side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Sherman Avenue (west side).

North side of Dyckman Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 1PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-1PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Dyckman Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 1PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-1PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Sherman Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 1PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 110333, 110860, 110901, 110902 and 114015.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 fire station
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School Elementary School
    880 feet
  2. The Equity Project Charter School
    910 feet
  3. Harold O. Levy School
    1,120 feet
Show all 6
  1. High School for Excellence and Innovation School
    1,120 feet
  2. Inwood Early College for Health and Information Technologies School
    1,120 feet
  3. School in the Square HS School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highbridge Park
    930 feet
  2. Lt. Wm. Tighe Triangle
    940 feet
  3. RING - Riverside Inwood Neighborhood Garden
    940 feet
Show all 6
  1. Fort Tryon Park Listed historic place
    1,010 feet
  2. Dyckman Rest Playground
    1,040 feet
  3. Anne Loftus Playground
    1,150 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Quisqueya Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    970 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dyckman Street Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Queen Martyrs Church House of worship
    660 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 95/Ladder 36 Fire station
    880 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    20 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    620 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Dan's Supermarket Supermarket
    250 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,090 feet
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    300 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    470 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 52 places to eat and 34 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dyckman Street or Sherman Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.