Sedgwick Avenue & Goulden Avenue

Sedgwick Avenue and Goulden Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village, Bronx. The corner is also named James Baldwin Plaza by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Jerome Park is 360 feet away, and World View High School is 1,120 feet away. The nearest subway, Mosholu Pkwy, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 4. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them schools.

Safety record
14 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Mosholu Pkwy
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 4
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Sedgwick Av/Dickinson Av · Bx1, Bx2, Bx10
Within a walk
9 places
3 schools, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sedgwick Avenue & Goulden Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Mosholu Pkwy, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Mosholu Pkwy 4
    0.3 miles
    4

Next trains at this station

Woodlawn
1 line
  1. 4 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 4 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Metromorphosis/Birth of a Station” (2008) by Corinne Grondahl at the Mosholu Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sedgwick Av/Dickinson Av, 250 feet away, for the Bx1, Bx2 and Bx10.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sedgwick Av/Dickinson Av Bx1, Bx2, Bx10 · Shelter
    250 feet
    Bx1 Bx2 Bx10
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx1 …
  2. Bx2 …
  3. Bx10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W Mosholu Pkwy S & Sedgwick Ave 37 docks in all
    570 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. 3276 Jerome Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 3500 Dekalb Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 3305 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10463
Community board
Bronx Community Board 8
City Council district
11
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

This corner is also named James Baldwin Plaza, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 17 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on James Baldwin Plaza.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 54 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Goulden Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Goulden Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Goulden Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Goulden Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of Sedgwick Avenue

  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Sedgwick Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Sedgwick Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

East side of West Mosholu Parkway South

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Bronx Collaborative High School
    1,120 feet
  2. Dewitt Clinton High School
    1,120 feet
  3. World View High School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jerome Park
    360 feet
  2. Van Cortlandt Park
    810 feet
  3. Gun Hill Meadow in Van Cortlandt Park Park feature
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. Fort Independence Playground
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. James Baldwin Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    430 feet

Health care

  1. St Patricks Home Nursing home or hospice
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles

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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Goulden Avenue, Sedgwick Avenue or West Mosholu Parkway South.

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.