Van Cortlandt Park South & Orloff Avenue

Van Cortlandt Park South and Orloff Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village, Bronx, at the edge of Van Cortlandt Park. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Van Cortlandt Park Golf Course is 630 feet away, and St Patricks Home is 1,080 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Van Cortlandt Av W/Orloff Av, is 670 feet away for the Bx10. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them playgrounds, and one place to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Major Deegan Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
670 feet
Van Cortlandt Av W/Orloff Av · Bx10
Within a walk
10 places
2 playgrounds, 2 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Van Cortlandt Av W/Orloff Av, 670 feet away, for the Bx10.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Van Cortlandt Av W/Orloff Av Bx10 · Shelter
    670 feet
    Bx10
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway northbound at Van Cortlandt Avenue West & Major Deegan Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5832 Broadway Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 189 Van Cortlandt Avenue West Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.5 miles
  3. 3305 Boston Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
91 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 1930 and 1950.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 103 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and December 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Orloff Avenue

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

West side of Orloff Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

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

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 golf course
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Amalgamated Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    380 feet
  2. Ampark Neighborhood School
    1,080 feet
  3. P.S. 095 Sheila Mencher School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Van Cortlandt Park
    50 feet
  2. Van Cortlandt Classic Playground
    340 feet
  3. Van Cortlandt Park Golf Course
    630 feet
Show all 4
  1. Fort Independence Playground
    1,160 feet

Health care

  1. St Patricks Home Nursing home or hospice
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Van Cortlandt Library, Arline Schwarzman Building Library
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Van Cortlandt Jewish Center House of worship
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    970 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

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