West 204th Street & Sherman Avenue

West 204th Street and Sherman Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Inwood, Manhattan. The corner is also named NYPD Detective Jason “TATA” Rivera Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 27 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 399 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Washington Heights Academy is 180 feet away. The nearest subway, 207 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, seven of them schools, and 46 places to eat.

Safety record
28 hurt
27 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
207 St
1,170 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
800 feet
Broadway/W 204 St · Bx7
Within a walk
21 places
7 schools, 4 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 204th Street & Sherman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 207 St, 1,170 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 207 St 1
    1,170 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

The Bronx
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. Inwood-207 St A
    0.3 miles
    A
  2. Dyckman St A
    0.4 miles
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Elevated Nature I-IV” (1991) by Wopo Holup at the 207 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 204 St, 800 feet away, for the Bx7.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 204 St Bx7
    800 feet
    Bx7

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Sherman Avenue.

  • 86 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 204 St & Vermilyea Ave 22 docks in all
    440 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway southbound at West Fordham Road, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4880 Broadway Gas station
    750 feet
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 27 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 28 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 399 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,316th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 92 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10034
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Inwood
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

This corner is also named NYPD Detective Jason “TATA” Rivera Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes

Homes

About 4,500 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 1920 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Kentucky coffeetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on NYPD Detective Jason “TATA” Rivera Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 43 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2013 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Sherman Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM

West side of Sherman Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of West 204th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of West 204th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 7 schools
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 historic site
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Washington Heights Academy School
    180 feet
  2. The Equity Project Charter School
    530 feet
  3. Children’s in Victory Day Care at 644 West 204th Street Pre-K
    580 feet
Show all 10
  1. Nicholas Cardell Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    580 feet
  2. God Is Love Reaching the Heights Pre-K
    700 feet
  3. Amistad Dual Language School
    1,190 feet
  4. Muscota School
    1,190 feet
  5. Harold O. Levy School
    1,190 feet
  6. High School for Excellence and Innovation School
    1,190 feet
  7. Inwood Early College for Health and Information Technologies School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Monsignor Kett Playground
    880 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Post Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dyckman House Museum Historic site
    840 feet
  2. William Dyckman House Listed historic place
    950 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Dyckman Spanish 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    400 feet
  2. St Judes RC Church House of worship
    1,050 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Inwood Post Office Listed historic place
    470 feet
  2. Older adult center at 84 Vermilyea Avenue Older adult center
    600 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 95/Ladder 36 Fire station
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    920 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Dan's Supermarket Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,190 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 46 places to eat and 29 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Sherman Avenue or West 204th Street.

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