Reservoir Avenue & Claflin Avenue

Reservoir Avenue and Claflin Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford Park, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. P.S. 315 Lab School is 290 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Sedgwick Av/W 231 St, is 820 feet away for the Bx3, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and one place to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Major Deegan Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
820 feet
Sedgwick Av/W 231 St · Bx3
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 2 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Reservoir Avenue & Claflin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sedgwick Av/W 231 St, 820 feet away, for the Bx3.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sedgwick Av/W 231 St Bx3
    820 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. Claflin Ave & Reservoir Ave 19 docks in all
    70 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at West 230th Street & Major Deegan Expressway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2590 Bailey Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 2 Bedford Park Boulevard West Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10468
Community board
Bronx Community Board 8
City Council district
11 and 14 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
50
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford Park
Elevation
151 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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 1926 and 1937.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 122 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Claflin Avenue

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

West side of Claflin Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Reservoir Avenue

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

West side of Reservoir Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 315 Lab School
    290 feet
  2. St. Jemuel Group Family Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet
  3. American Dream Charter School II School
    1,010 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Marie Curie High School for Medicine, Nursing, and Health Professions School
    1,170 feet
  2. The New School for Leadership and Journalism School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Washington's Walk Park
    160 feet
  2. Fort #4 Playground
    360 feet
  3. Strong Street Playground
    1,170 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Broadway Plaza Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Claflin Avenue or Reservoir 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, NYC Finance and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.