Sedgwick Avenue & Van Cortlandt Avenue West

Sedgwick Avenue and Van Cortlandt Avenue West meet at a four-way crossing in Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village, Bronx. The corner is also named Van Cortlandt Village Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 36 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Fort Independence Playground is 140 feet away, and South Bronx Classical Charter School V is 340 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Sedgwick Av/Van Cortlandt Av West, is 150 feet away for the Bx1, Bx2 and BxM3. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places and one place to eat.

Safety record
22 hurt
36 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Major Deegan Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Sedgwick Av/Van Cortlandt Av West · Bx1, Bx2, BxM3
Within a walk
12 places
4 schools, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sedgwick Avenue & Van Cortlandt Avenue West Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sedgwick Av/Van Cortlandt Av West, 150 feet away, for the Bx1, Bx2 and BxM3.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sedgwick Av/Van Cortlandt Av West Bx1, Bx2, BxM3 · Shelter
    150 feet
    Bx1 Bx2 BxM3
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx1 …
  2. Bx2 …
  3. BxM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sedgwick Ave & Hillman Ave 25 docks in all
    420 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at Van Cortlandt Avenue West & Major Deegan Expressway, 0.3 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
    0.4 miles
  3. 3305 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 36 crashes at this corner, more than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

  • 22 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2022
  • Turn calming, January 2025

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)
Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village
Elevation
99 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Van Cortlandt Village Square, a co-naming enacted on October 12, 1976 (Local Law 54 of 1976).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

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 1932 and 1957.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Van Cortlandt Village Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2014 and October 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Sedgwick Avenue

  • Bus layover only 2 signs MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 28 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 8 signs NO STANDING 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 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Sedgwick Avenue

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

East side of Stevenson Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Stevenson Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Kids-Centric, Inc. van Cortland School
    340 feet
  2. Child Development Center van Cortlandt Pre-K
    340 feet
  3. South Bronx Classical Charter School V School
    340 feet
Show all 7
  1. Ampark Neighborhood School
    500 feet
  2. P.S. 095 Sheila Mencher School
    500 feet
  3. Amalgamated Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  4. Rose Hill Early Childhood Academiesat 3605 Sedgwick Avenue Pre-K center
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Independence Playground
    140 feet
  2. Van Cortlandt Park
    1,050 feet
  3. Van Cortlandt Classic Playground
    1,100 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Van Cortlandt Library, Arline Schwarzman Building Library
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Van Cortlandt Jewish Center House of worship
    280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    60 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Sedgwick Avenue, Stevenson Place or Van Cortlandt Avenue West.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.