Hillside Avenue & Sickles Street

Hillside Avenue and Sickles Street meet at a three-way junction in Washington Heights (North), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. P.S. 152 Dyckman Valley is 290 feet away. The nearest subway, Dyckman St, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Dyckman St
670 feet · 3 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
920 feet
Dyckman St/Nagle Av · M100
Within a walk
10 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 listed historic places and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hillside Avenue & Sickles Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Dyckman St, 670 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

The Bronx
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. 190 St A
    0.4 miles
    A
  2. Dyckman St A
    0.5 miles
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Birds in Flight-Moon View” (1991) by Wopo Holup at the Dyckman St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Dyckman St/Nagle Av, 920 feet away, for the M100.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dyckman St/Nagle Av M100
    920 feet
    M100

Next buses at this stop

  1. M100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Nagle Ave & Ellwood St 21 docks in all
    690 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, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 265 West 204th Street Gas station
    0.4 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 seven crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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
38 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,000 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 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2013 and January 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hillside Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Sickles Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Sickles Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 152 Dyckman Valley School
    290 feet
  2. The Children's Aid Society Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    500 feet
  3. Professor Juan Bosch Public School
    710 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highbridge Park
    910 feet
  2. Dyckman Rest Playground
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Substation #17 (IRT) Listed historic place
    150 feet
  2. Dyckman Street Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    400 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. YM-YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood Recreation center · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  2. Older adult center at 54 Nagle Avenue Older adult center
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    690 feet
  2. Dan's Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,310 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and 20 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 Hillside Avenue or Sickles Street.

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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.