Seaman Avenue & Academy Street

Seaman Avenue and Academy Street meet at a three-way junction in Inwood, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. High School for Excellence and Innovation is 930 feet away, and Anne Loftus Playground is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Dyckman St, is about four minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, five of them schools, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Dyckman St
1,110 feet · 4 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
1,060 feet
Broadway/W 204 St · Bx7
Within a walk
21 places
5 schools, 3 parks and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Seaman Avenue & Academy Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Dyckman St, 1,110 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Dyckman St A
    1,110 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. A …
Downtown
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. Inwood-207 St A
    0.3 miles
    A

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 204 St, 1,060 feet away, for the Bx7.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 204 St Bx7 · Shelter
    1,060 feet
    Bx7
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Seaman Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Seaman Ave & Beak St 21 docks in all
    180 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & Henry Hudson Parkway at Staff Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 242 Dyckman Street Gas station
    980 feet
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10034
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Inwood
Elevation
58 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph

Homes

About 2,800 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 1925 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 209 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 84 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2013 and June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Academy Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Academy Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Seaman Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Harold O. Levy School
    930 feet
  2. High School for Excellence and Innovation School
    930 feet
  3. Inwood Early College for Health and Information Technologies School
    930 feet
Show all 6
  1. Amistad Dual Language School
    980 feet
  2. Muscota School
    980 feet
  3. God Is Love Reaching the Heights Pre-K
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Inwood Hill Park
    490 feet
  2. Whale Back Rock in Inwood Hill Park Park feature
    670 feet
  3. RING - Riverside Inwood Neighborhood Garden
    900 feet
Show all 8
  1. Lt. Wm. Tighe Triangle
    900 feet
  2. Payson Playground
    960 feet
  3. Fort Tryon Park Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  4. Anne Loftus Playground
    1,200 feet
  5. Emerson Playground
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Quisqueya Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    970 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Inwood Library–joseph and Sheila Rosenblatt Building Library
    940 feet
  2. Dyckman House Museum Historic site
    1,030 feet
  3. William Dyckman House Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 95/Ladder 36 Fire station
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Dan's Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and seven 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Academy Street or Seaman Avenue.

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