University Avenue & Cross Bronx Expressway

University Avenue and Cross Bronx Expressway meet at a four-way crossing in University Heights (South)-Morris Heights, Bronx. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Sedgwick Playground is 400 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Edward L Grant Hwy/University Av, is 220 feet away for the Bx11, Bx13 and Bx35, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them playgrounds, and six places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Major Deegan Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
Edward L Grant Hwy/University Av · Bx11, Bx13, Bx35
Within a walk
15 places
4 playgrounds, 3 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
University Avenue & Cross Bronx Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Edward L Grant Hwy/University Av, 220 feet away, for the Bx11, Bx13 and Bx35.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Edward L Grant Hwy/University Av Bx11, Bx13, Bx35 · Shelter
    220 feet
    Bx11 Bx13 Bx35
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx11 …
  2. Bx13 …
  3. Bx35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 37 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Featherbed Ln & Nelson Ave 22 docks in all
    1,250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway southbound at Depot Place & Major Deegan Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1314 Sedgwick Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10452
Community board
Bronx Community Board 4
City Council district
16
Police precinct
44
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
University Heights (South)-Morris Heights

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 7,000 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 in 1950.

Since 2014 at least 160 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Garden of Learning and Discovery Pre-K Center at 1434 Ogden Avenue Pre-K center
    420 feet
  2. Sedgwick Trade or language school
    600 feet
  3. Aim High - S Bronx Headstart Site 2 School
    1,080 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bronx-Manhattan SDA School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Plimpton Playground
    100 feet
  2. Sedgwick Playground
    400 feet
  3. Bridge Playground
    500 feet
Show all 6
  1. Featherbed Triangle
    810 feet
  2. Ogden Plimpton Playground
    1,030 feet
  3. Bridge Park
    1,130 feet

Health care

  1. Hope Center for HIV and Nursing Care Nursing home or hospice
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Featherbed Lane Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,040 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Sedgwick Community Center
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Extra Jumbo Market Place Supermarket
    1,120 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,130 feet
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cross Bronx Expressway or University Avenue.

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