Sedgwick Avenue & West 197th Street

Sedgwick Avenue and West 197th Street meet at a three-way junction in Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Fort #4 Playground is 920 feet away, and the Marie Curie High School for Medicine, Nursing, and Health Professions is 1,250 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Sedgwick Av/W 197 St, is 50 feet away for the Bx3 and BxM3. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them schools, and five places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Major Deegan Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Sedgwick Av/W 197 St · Bx3, BxM3
Within a walk
11 places
5 schools, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sedgwick Avenue & West 197th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sedgwick Av/W 197 St, 50 feet away, for the Bx3 and BxM3.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sedgwick Av/W 197 St Bx3, BxM3
    50 feet
    Bx3 BxM3

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx3 …
  2. BxM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sedgwick Ave & W 195 St 21 docks in all
    780 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at West 230th Street & Major Deegan Expressway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2590 Bailey Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2 Bedford Park Boulevard West Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2071 White Plains Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10468
Community board
Bronx Community Board 8
City Council district
14
Police precinct
50
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village
Elevation
150 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,500 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 1926 and 1957.

Since 2014 at least 81 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2020 and July 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Sedgwick Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 15 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 197th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. American Dream Charter School II School
    340 feet
  2. St. Jemuel Group Family Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    600 feet
  3. P.S. 360 School
    1,110 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 315 Lab School
    1,190 feet
  2. The Marie Curie High School for Medicine, Nursing, and Health Professions School
    1,250 feet
  3. The New School for Leadership and Journalism School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort #4 Playground
    920 feet
  2. Washington's Walk Park
    940 feet
  3. Strong Street Playground
    1,220 feet
Show all 4
  1. Major General John R Brown Triangle
    1,240 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. The Shops at Marble Hill Shopping center
    0.4 miles
  2. Broadway Plaza Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • 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 Sedgwick Avenue or West 197th Street.

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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.