Riverdale Avenue & West 260th Street

Riverdale Avenue and West 260th Street meet at a three-way junction in Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Sar High School is 580 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Riverdale Av/W 260 St, is 40 feet away for the Bx7 and Bx10, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Henry Hudson Parkway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Riverdale Av/W 260 St · Bx7, Bx10
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverdale Avenue & West 260th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverdale Av/W 260 St, 40 feet away, for the Bx7 and Bx10.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverdale Av/W 260 St Bx7, Bx10
    40 feet
    Bx7 Bx10

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …
  2. Bx10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Riverdale Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverdale Ave & W 261 St 12 docks in all
    510 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Fieldston Road & Henry Hudson Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5914 Riverdale Avenue Gas station
    450 feet
  2. 5683 Riverdale Avenue Charging for electric cars, 65 Level 2 chargers
    850 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2023
  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2024

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
123 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,500 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 1961 and 1962.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Riverdale Avenue (west side).

East side of Riverdale Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

South side of West 260th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 205352 and 206244.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. St Margaret of Cortona School
    320 feet
  2. Sar High School
    580 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Riverdale Post Office
    320 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    930 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,110 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and six food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverdale Avenue or West 260th Street.

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