Reservoir Avenue & West Kingsbridge Road

Reservoir Avenue and West Kingsbridge Road meet at a four-way crossing in Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, 34 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. Aqueduct Walk is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingsbridge Rd, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 29 places to eat.

Safety record
30 hurt
34 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingsbridge Rd
770 feet · 3 min on foot · 4
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Reservoir Av/West Kingsbridge Rd · Bx22
Within a walk
18 places
7 religious buildings, 5 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Reservoir Avenue & West Kingsbridge Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingsbridge Rd, 770 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingsbridge Rd 4
    770 feet
    4

Next trains at this station

Northbound
1 line
  1. 4 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 4 …

Also within a walk

  1. Kingsbridge Rd B, D
    0.3 miles
    B D
  2. Fordham Rd 4
    0.5 miles
    4

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Urban Motif” (2007) by Mario M. Muller at the Kingsbridge Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Reservoir Av/West Kingsbridge Rd, 40 feet away, for the Bx22.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Reservoir Av/West Kingsbridge Rd Bx22
    40 feet
    Bx22

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 40 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 192 St & University Ave 21 docks in all
    870 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 2478 Jerome Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 34 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 30 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2020
  • Turn calming, March 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10468
Community board
Bronx Community Board 7
City Council district
14
Police precinct
50 and 52 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village
Elevation
141 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,800 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 1921 and 1937.

Since 2014 at least 22 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 51 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2020 and March 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on West Kingsbridge Road (south side).

East side of Aqueduct Avenue West

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Aqueduct Avenue West

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

East side of Reservoir Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Reservoir Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Reservoir Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of West Kingsbridge Road

  • Metered parking 8 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 214871 and 215195.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1912 and 1917.

  1. Eighth Coastal Artillery Armory Designated landmark
    410 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 086 Kingsbridge Heights School
    890 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - NYC 7 School
    1,000 feet
  3. Lil Inventors Child Care Aqueduct Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Aqueduct Walk Park
    50 feet
  2. Barnhill Square
    50 feet
  3. St. James Park
    1,110 feet
Show all 6
  1. St James Park Playground
    1,210 feet
  2. Major General John R Brown Triangle
    1,270 feet
  3. Washington's Walk Park
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. The Plaza Rehab and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    710 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jerome Park Library
    720 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Fordham Manor Church House of worship
    230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    910 feet
  2. Food Fair Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Aqueduct Avenue West, Reservoir Avenue or West Kingsbridge Road.

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