West 240th Street & Dash Place

West 240th Street and Dash Place meet at a three-way junction in Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Atmosphere Academy Public CS High School is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, 238 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
238 St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Riverdale Av/W 238 St · Bx7
Within a walk
7 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 240th Street & Dash Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 238 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 238 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

Van Cortlandt
1 line
  1. 1 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. Van Cortlandt Park-242 St 1
    0.5 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverdale Av/W 238 St, 0.3 miles away, for the Bx7.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverdale Av/W 238 St Bx7 · Shelter
    0.3 miles
    Bx7
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Waldo Ave & Manhattan College Pkwy 20 docks in all
    950 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Henry Hudson Parkway West & Henry Hudson Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3010 Irwin Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 5935 Broadway Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of four crashes for a Bronx corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

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
Elevation
136 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 1931 and 1966.

Since 2014 at least 9 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in July 2015, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Dash Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of West 240th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of West 240th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Riverdale Nursery School and Family Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    430 feet
  2. Atmosphere Academy Public CS High School
    520 feet
  3. ECFS School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. MacLaughlin Playground
    410 feet
  2. Brust Park
    560 feet
  3. Brust Park Playground
    940 feet

Health care

  1. Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and three 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 Dash Place or West 240th Street.

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.