Spencer Avenue & Thorns Lane

Spencer Avenue and Thorns Lane meet at a three-way junction in Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Van Cortlandt Park is 1,040 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Broadway/Mosholu Av, is 1,300 feet away for the Bx9 and BxM3, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Henry Hudson Parkway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,300 feet
Broadway/Mosholu Av · Bx9, BxM3
Within a walk
4 places
2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 parks, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Spencer Avenue & Thorns Lane Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Mosholu Av, 1,300 feet away, for the Bx9 and BxM3.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Mosholu Av Bx9, BxM3 · Shelter
    1,300 feet
    Bx9 BxM3
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx9 …
  2. BxM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fieldston Rd & Mosholu Ave 13 docks in all
    490 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Fieldston Road & Henry Hudson Parkway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6571 Broadway Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 5683 Riverdale Avenue Charging for electric cars, 65 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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
10471
Community board
Bronx Community Board 8
City Council district
11
Police precinct
50
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil
Elevation
75 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 76 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated one lamppost.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks

Schools and child care

  1. La Escuelita de Sofia Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    190 feet
  2. Jasmin Educational Enterprises Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    340 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Van Cortlandt Park
    1,040 feet
  2. Sheridan Triangle
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    550 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Spencer Avenue or Thorns Lane.

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