Sedgwick Avenue & West Burnside Avenue

Sedgwick Avenue and West Burnside Avenue meet at a three-way junction in University Heights (South)-Morris Heights, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. P.S. 226 is 440 feet away. The nearest bus stop, West Burnside Av/Sedgwick Av, is 90 feet away for the Bx40 and Bx42, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them schools, and five places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Major Deegan Expressway
620 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
West Burnside Av/Sedgwick Av · Bx40, Bx42
Within a walk
10 places
3 schools, 2 playgrounds and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sedgwick Avenue & West Burnside Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is West Burnside Av/Sedgwick Av, 90 feet away, for the Bx40 and Bx42.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. West Burnside Av/Sedgwick Av Bx40, Bx42
    90 feet
    Bx40 Bx42

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx40 …
  2. Bx42 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on West Burnside Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sedgwick Ave & W Burnside Ave 17 docks in all
    170 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at Cedar Avenue & West 179th Street, 620 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 1764 University Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10453
Community board
Bronx Community Board 5
City Council district
14
Police precinct
46
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
University Heights (South)-Morris Heights
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 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 1923 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Sedgwick Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 16 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 226 School
    440 feet
  2. Bronx Community College Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet
  3. M.S. 390 School
    1,160 feet
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  1. P.S. 396 School
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cedar Playground
    200 feet
  2. Beanstalk Playground
    620 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Calvary Methodist Church House of worship
    1,070 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at West Tremont Avenue-Sedgwick Avenue Area Community center
    1,060 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 43/Ladder 59 Fire station
    310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    760 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Sedgwick Avenue or West Burnside Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.