Seaman Avenue & Isham Street

Seaman Avenue and Isham Street meet at a four-way crossing in Inwood, Manhattan. The corner is also named Matty Alou Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Isham Park is 40 feet away, and Homers Dog Run in Inwood Hill Park is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, Inwood-207 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, three of them park features, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Inwood-207 St
740 feet · 3 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
730 feet
Broadway/Isham St · Bx12, Bx12 SBS
Within a walk
13 places
3 park features, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Seaman Avenue & Isham Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Inwood-207 St, 740 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Inwood-207 St A
    740 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Downtown
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. 207 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1
  2. 215 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “At the Start... At Long Last...” (1999) by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville at the Inwood-207 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Isham St, 730 feet away, for the Bx12 and Bx12 SBS.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Isham St Bx12, Bx12 SBS · Shelter
    730 feet
    Bx12 Bx12 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx12 …
  2. Bx12 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Seaman Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Seaman Ave & Isham St 23 docks in all
    40 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, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4880 Broadway Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 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
44 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: Matty Alou Way (Local Law 76 of 2015, enacted on August 10, 2015) and Tommy Dowd Way (Local Law 13 of 2006, enacted on May 23, 2006).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1924 and 1936.

Trees

NYC Parks records 175 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2022 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Isham Street

  • Farmers market 2 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY SATURDAY 6AM-4PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Isham Street

  • Farmers market 3 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY SATURDAY 6AM-4PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Seaman Avenue

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

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

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 park features
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd New York City School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    280 feet
  2. Good Shepherd School
    320 feet
  3. School in the Square Elementary School
    430 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Inwood Hill Park
    40 feet
  2. Isham Park
    40 feet
  3. Emerson Playground
    320 feet
Show all 8
  1. Homers Dog Run in Inwood Hill Park Dog run
    520 feet
  2. Boulders South Lawn in Isham Park Park feature
    660 feet
  3. Ginko Tree & Stairs in Isham Park Park feature
    730 feet
  4. Indian Road Playground
    780 feet
  5. 9 11 Memorial Rock in Isham Park Park feature
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dyckman House Museum Historic site
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Good Shepherd Church Broadway House of worship
    580 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,020 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,050 feet
  3. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Isham 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 Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.