Sedgwick Avenue & Giles Place

Sedgwick Avenue and Giles Place meet at a three-way junction in Bedford Park, Bronx. The corner is also named Howard E. Padernacht Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Van Cortlandt Jewish Center is 1,080 feet away, and South Bronx Classical Charter School V is 1,220 feet away. The nearest subway, 238 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places and two places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
238 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Sedgwick Av/Giles Pl · Bx1, Bx2, BxM3
Within a walk
8 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sedgwick Avenue & Giles Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 238 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. 238 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

Van Cortlandt
1 line
  1. 1 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 1 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sedgwick Av/Giles Pl, 110 feet away, for the Bx1, Bx2 and BxM3.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sedgwick Av/Giles Pl Bx1, Bx2, BxM3 · Shelter
    110 feet
    Bx1 Bx2 BxM3
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx1 …
  2. Bx2 …
  3. BxM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sedgwick Ave & Giles Pl 20 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at Van Cortlandt Avenue West & Major Deegan Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5832 Broadway Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 189 Van Cortlandt Avenue West Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.7 miles
  3. 3305 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2021.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10463
Community board
Bronx Community Board 8
City Council district
11
Police precinct
50
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford Park
Elevation
133 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Howard E. Padernacht Place, a co-naming enacted on October 2, 2012 (Local Law 48 of 2012).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 1927 and 1965.

Since 2014 at least 45 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Howard E. Padernacht Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2014 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Giles Place

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Giles Place

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

West side of Sedgwick Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Rose Hill Early Childhood Academiesat 3605 Sedgwick Avenue Pre-K center
    240 feet
  2. Kids-Centric, Inc. van Cortland School
    1,220 feet
  3. South Bronx Classical Charter School V School
    1,220 feet
Show all 4
  1. Child Development Center van Cortlandt Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Independence Playground
    70 feet

Health care

  1. The Citadel Rehab and Nursing Center at Kingsbridge Nursing home or hospice
    750 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fort Independence Historic District Listed historic place
    380 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Van Cortlandt Jewish Center House of worship
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Giles Place or Sedgwick 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.