Matthewson Road & West Tremont Avenue

Matthewson Road and West Tremont Avenue meet at a three-way junction in University Heights (South)-Morris Heights, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Roberto Clemente State Park is 30 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cedar Av/West Tremont Av, is 330 feet away for the Bx40 and Bx42, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them schools, and one place to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Major Deegan Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Cedar Av/West Tremont Av · Bx40, Bx42
Within a walk
10 places
3 schools, 2 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Matthewson Road & West Tremont Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cedar Av/West Tremont Av, 330 feet away, for the Bx40 and Bx42.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cedar Av/West Tremont Av Bx40, Bx42
    330 feet
    Bx40 Bx42

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx40 …
  2. Bx42 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W Tremont Ave & Matthewson Rd 19 docks in all
    100 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at Cedar Avenue & West 179th Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1764 University Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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 January 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10453
Community board
Bronx Community Board 5
City Council district
16
Police precinct
46
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
University Heights (South)-Morris Heights

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 1941 and 1973.

Since 2014 at least 7 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and February 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Matthewson Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Matthewson Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of West Tremont Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 229 Roland Patterson School
    270 feet
  2. The New American Academy at Roberto Clemente State Park School
    270 feet
  3. Luminous Early Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 109 Sedgwick School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Roberto Clemente State Park
    30 feet
  2. Cedar Playground
    930 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Matthews AME Church House of worship
    840 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at West Tremont Avenue-Sedgwick Avenue Area Community center
    910 feet
  2. Older adult center at 200 West Tremont Avenue Older adult center
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    950 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Antillana Market Place Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • 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 Matthewson Road or West Tremont Avenue.

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