West 235th Street & Douglas Avenue

West 235th Street and Douglas Avenue 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. Seton Park is 20 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Independence Av/W 236 St, is 1,190 feet away for the Bx10 and Bx20, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them playgrounds. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1963 and 1970, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Henry Hudson Parkway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,190 feet
Independence Av/W 236 St · Bx10, Bx20
Within a walk
9 places
3 playgrounds, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

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West 235th Street & Douglas Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Independence Av/W 236 St, 1,190 feet away, for the Bx10 and Bx20.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Independence Av/W 236 St Bx10, Bx20
    1,190 feet
    Bx10 Bx20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx10 …
  2. Bx20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 235 St & Independence Ave 18 docks in all
    670 feet

By car

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

  1. 317 West 230th Street Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 555 Kappock Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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 June 2020.

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)
Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph

Homes

About 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 1963 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 119 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2015 and August 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Douglas Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Douglas Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 235th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 235th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 024 Spuyten Duyvil School
    710 feet
  2. Bright Horizons at Riverdale Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  3. Riverdale / Kingsbridge Academy (Middle School / High School 141) School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Seton Park
    20 feet
  2. Raoul Wallenberg Forest Nature area
    30 feet
  3. Seton Park Playground
    60 feet
Show all 5
  1. Spuyten Duyvil Playground
    90 feet
  2. Riverdale Playground
    610 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Spuyten Duyvil Library
    680 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Douglas Avenue or West 235th Street.

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