Greystone Avenue & West 242nd Street

Greystone Avenue and West 242nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Brust Park is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, 238 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them schools, and three places to eat. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1928 and 1951, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
238 St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Riverdale Av/W 238 St · Bx7
Within a walk
11 places
4 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Greystone Avenue & West 242nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 238 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 238 St 1
    0.5 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

Van Cortlandt
1 line
  1. 1 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 1 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverdale Av/W 238 St, 0.3 miles away, for the Bx7.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverdale Av/W 238 St Bx7 · Shelter
    0.3 miles
    Bx7
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Waldo Ave & Manhattan College Pkwy 20 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Henry Hudson Parkway West & Henry Hudson Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3010 Irwin Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 5935 Broadway Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2018.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, May 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10463
Community board
Bronx Community Board 8
City Council district
11
Police precinct
50
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil
Elevation
139 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 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 1928 and 1951.

Since 2014 at least 9 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2014 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Greystone Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 242nd Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Nineteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Medieval Revival, and mostly built between 1922 and 1936.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Atmosphere Academy Public CS High School
    240 feet
  2. ECFS School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    570 feet
  3. Ethical Culture Fieldston LS School
    760 feet
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  1. Ethical Culture Fieldston MS School
    760 feet
  2. Ethical Culture Fieldston School
    760 feet
  3. Riverdale Nursery School and Family Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brust Park
    30 feet
  2. Brust Park Playground
    240 feet
  3. MacLaughlin Playground
    570 feet

Health care

  1. Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    590 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Greystone Avenue or West 242nd 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.