Independence Avenue & Palisade Avenue

Independence Avenue and Palisade Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx. The corner is also named John McKelvey Sr. Way Villa Rosa Bonheur by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Henry Hudson Park is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Henry Hudson Pkwy West/Independence Av, is 1,060 feet away for the Bx10, Bx20, BxM1 and two more. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them playgrounds.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Henry Hudson Parkway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,060 feet
Henry Hudson Pkwy West/Independence Av · Bx10, Bx20, BxM1, BxM2 +1
Within a walk
6 places
2 playgrounds, 1 nature area and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Independence Avenue & Palisade Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Henry Hudson Pkwy West/Independence Av, 1,060 feet away, for the Bx10, Bx20, BxM1, BxM2 and BxM18.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Henry Hudson Pkwy West/Independence Av Bx10, Bx20, BxM1, BxM2 +1
    1,060 feet
    Bx10 Bx20 BxM1 BxM2 BxM18

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx10 …
  2. Bx20 …
  3. BxM1 …
  4. BxM2 …
  5. BxM18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kappock St & Independence Ave 18 docks in all
    960 feet

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. 317 West 230th Street Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 555 Kappock Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 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
109 feet above sea level

This corner is also named John McKelvey Sr. Way Villa Rosa Bonheur, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • One travel lane

Homes

About 1,000 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 1958 and 1962.

Since 2014 at least 17 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 131 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Siberian elm.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on John McKelvey Sr. Way Villa Rosa Bonheur.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Independence Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Palisade Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Eclectic, and built between 1888 and 1889.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Henry Hudson Park
    40 feet
  2. Spuyten Duyvil Shorefront Park Nature area
    100 feet
  3. Paul's Playground
    690 feet
Show all 4
  1. Henry Hudson Playground (West) Playground
    780 feet

Health care

  1. Independence Care Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Edgehill Church of Spuyten Duyvil Landmark · listed historic place
    600 feet

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Independence Avenue or Palisade 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.