Manhattan College Parkway & Waldo Avenue

Manhattan College Parkway and Waldo Avenue (south) meet at a three-way junction in Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Manhattan University is 990 feet away. The nearest subway, Van Cortlandt Park-242 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them schools, and eight places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1928 and 1961, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Van Cortlandt Park-242 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Broadway/W 240 St · Bx9
Within a walk
6 places
2 schools, 1 college and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Manhattan College Parkway & Waldo Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Van Cortlandt Park-242 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Van Cortlandt Park-242 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. 238 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 240 St, 0.3 miles away, for the Bx9.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 240 St Bx9
    0.3 miles
    Bx9

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Waldo Ave & Manhattan College Pkwy 20 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway southbound at Van Cortlandt Park South & Putnam Avenue West, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5832 Broadway Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 5935 Broadway Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10471
Community board
Bronx Community Board 8
City Council district
11
Police precinct
50
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil
Elevation
75 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

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 1928 and 1961.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Manhattan College Parkway

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Manhattan College Parkway

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 16 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Waldo Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Seven buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival and Medieval Revival, and built between 1913 and 1943.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Atmosphere Academy Public CS High School
    230 feet
  2. Riverdale Nursery School and Family Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    560 feet
  3. Manhattan University College
    990 feet
Show all 4
  1. Atmosphere Academy Public Charter School Annex 2 School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brust Park
    120 feet

Health care

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

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Manhattan College Parkway or Waldo Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.