Van Cortlandt Park South & Hillman Avenue

Van Cortlandt Park South and Hillman Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village, Bronx, at the edge of Van Cortlandt Park. The corner is also named William J. Scribner Way by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Ampark Neighborhood is 850 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Sedgwick Av/Hillman Av, is 960 feet away for the Bx1, Bx2 and Bx10, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them playgrounds.

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
960 feet
Sedgwick Av/Hillman Av · Bx1, Bx2, Bx10
Within a walk
9 places
2 playgrounds, 2 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Van Cortlandt Park South & Hillman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sedgwick Av/Hillman Av, 960 feet away, for the Bx1, Bx2 and Bx10.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sedgwick Av/Hillman Av Bx1, Bx2, Bx10
    960 feet
    Bx1 Bx2 Bx10

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx1 …
  2. Bx2 …
  3. Bx10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Van Cortlandt Park S & Gouverneur Ave 25 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at Van Cortlandt Avenue West & Major Deegan Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3276 Jerome Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 3500 Dekalb Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 3305 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 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 February 2016.

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; the corner is on the edge of the Van Cortlandt Park area
Elevation
110 feet above sea level

This corner is also named William J. Scribner Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

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 1928 and 1950.

Since 2014 at least 17 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 99 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on William J. Scribner Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hillman Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Hillman Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Van Cortlandt Park South

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 golf course
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ampark Neighborhood School
    850 feet
  2. P.S. 095 Sheila Mencher School
    850 feet
  3. Amalgamated Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Van Cortlandt Park
    40 feet
  2. Van Cortlandt Classic Playground
    160 feet
  3. Van Cortlandt Park Golf Course
    820 feet
Show all 5
  1. Gun Hill Meadow in Van Cortlandt Park Park feature
    910 feet
  2. Fort Independence Playground
    1,230 feet

Health care

  1. St Patricks Home Nursing home or hospice
    530 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles

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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hillman Avenue or Van Cortlandt Park South.

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