Orloff Avenue & Cannon Place

Orloff Avenue and Cannon Place (south-west) meet at a three-way junction in Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Van Cortlandt Library, Arline Schwarzman Building is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, 238 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them playgrounds, and two places to eat. About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1927 and 1964, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
238 St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
W 238 St/Orloff Av · Bx3
Within a walk
6 places
2 playgrounds, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Orloff Avenue & Cannon Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 238 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 238 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

Van Cortlandt
1 line
  1. 1 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 1 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 238 St/Orloff Av, 350 feet away, for the Bx3.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 238 St/Orloff Av Bx3
    350 feet
    Bx3

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sedgwick Ave & Giles Pl 20 docks in all
    940 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at Van Cortlandt Avenue West & Major Deegan Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5832 Broadway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 189 Van Cortlandt Avenue West Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.6 miles
  3. 3305 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 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 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)
Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village
Elevation
86 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 2,400 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 1927 and 1964.

Since 2014 at least 36 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Siberian elm and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Cannon Place

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

South side of Cannon Place

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Cannon Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Orloff Avenue

  • No parking 16 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Orloff Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Rose Hill Early Childhood Academiesat 3605 Sedgwick Avenue Pre-K center
    710 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Independence Playground
    700 feet
  2. Bailey Playground
    1,050 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fort Independence Historic District Listed historic place
    510 feet
  2. Van Cortlandt Library, Arline Schwarzman Building Library
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Van Cortlandt Jewish Center House of worship
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and two 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cannon Place or Orloff 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.