Independence Avenue & West 236th Street

Independence Avenue and West 236th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx. The corner is also named Herb Lieberman Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Riverdale Playground is 260 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Independence Av/W 236 St, is 90 feet away for the Bx10 and Bx20, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, five of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Henry Hudson Parkway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Independence Av/W 236 St · Bx10, Bx20
Within a walk
16 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Independence Avenue & West 236th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Independence Av/W 236 St, 90 feet away, for the Bx10 and Bx20.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Independence Av/W 236 St Bx10, Bx20
    90 feet
    Bx10 Bx20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx10 …
  2. Bx20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 235 St & Independence Ave 18 docks in all
    450 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Henry Hudson Parkway East & Henry Hudson Parkway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3010 Irwin Avenue Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 555 Kappock Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2017

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
193 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Herb Lieberman Way, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,900 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 1954 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2015 and March 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Independence Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 6 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Independence Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of West 236th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of West 236th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 024 Spuyten Duyvil School
    450 feet
  2. Atmosphere Academy Public CS Middle School
    450 feet
  3. Riverdale / Kingsbridge Academy (Middle School / High School 141) School
    480 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bright Horizons at Riverdale Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
  2. Birch Family Services - Riverdale School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverdale Playground
    260 feet
  2. Spuyten Duyvil Playground
    490 feet
  3. Seton Park
    560 feet
Show all 5
  1. Raoul Wallenberg Forest Nature area
    1,090 feet
  2. Seton Park Playground
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Spuyten Duyvil Library
    590 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Riverdale Jewish Center Synagogue House of worship
    330 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Independence Avenue or West 236th 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.