Wakefield, Bronx

Wakefield
Wakefield
Neighborhood of the Bronx
	Factory building on Bronx Boulevard
	Location in New York City
	Coordinates: 40°53′49″N 73°51′07″W / 40.897°N 73.852°W
Country	United States
State	New York
City	New York City
Borough	The Bronx
Community District	Bronx 12
Area
• Total	0.991 sq mi (2.57 km2)
Population (2011)
• Total	29,158
• Density	29,000/sq mi (11,000/km2)
Economics
• Median income	$56,446
ZIP Codes	10466, 10470
Area code	718, 347, 929, and 917
Website	www.wakefield.nyc[dead link]

Wakefield is a working-class and middle-class section of the northern borough of the Bronx in New York City. It is bounded by the city's border with Westchester County to the north, East 222nd Street to the south, and the Bronx River Parkway to the west.

Wakefield is the northernmost neighborhood in New York City (although the city's northernmost point is actually in Riverdale, at the College of Mount Saint Vincent^[3]). The neighborhood is part of Bronx Community District 12 and its ZIP Codes are 10466 and 10470.^[1] Wakefield is patrolled by the 47th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.

^ ^a ^b "NYC Planning | Community Profiles". communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov. New York City Department of City Planning. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Wakefield neighborhood in New York". Retrieved October 22, 2015.
^ Schneider, Daniel B. "F.Y.I.", The New York Times, July 1, 2001. Accessed April 20, 2021. "Getting Your Bearings Q. Where are the city's northern, southern, eastern and westernmost points, and what is the greatest distance between one point and another? A.... According to A Natural History of New York City by John Kieran (Houghton Mifflin, 1959), the easternmost point is in Glen Oaks, Queens, at about 73 degrees 42 minutes west longitude, and the extreme northern point is the bank of the Hudson in the Mount St. Vincent area of the Bronx, at about 40 degrees 55 minutes north latitude."