Post Road & West 259th Street

Post Road and West 259th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Van Cortlandt Park is 340 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Broadway/W 260 St, is 680 feet away for the Bx9 and BxM3, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Henry Hudson Parkway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
Broadway/W 260 St · Bx9, BxM3
Within a walk
7 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Post Road & West 259th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 260 St, 680 feet away, for the Bx9 and BxM3.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 260 St Bx9, BxM3 · Shelter
    680 feet
    Bx9 BxM3
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx9 …
  2. BxM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. David Sheridan Plaza & Broadway 16 docks in all
    650 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Broadway & West 254th Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6571 Broadway Gas station
    680 feet
  2. 5683 Riverdale Avenue Charging for electric cars, 65 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 September 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
50 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1945 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the pin oak.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated one lamppost.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. La Escuelita de Sofia Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    860 feet
  2. Jasmin Educational Enterprises Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Van Cortlandt Park
    340 feet
  2. Sheridan Triangle
    580 feet
  3. Northwest Forest in Van Cortlandt Park Park feature
    920 feet
Show all 4
  1. Northwest Playground
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. Park Gardens Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    790 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,250 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Post Road or West 259th Street.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.