11th Avenue & West End Avenue

The four-way crossing of 11th Avenue and West End Avenue is in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 815 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Gertrude Ederle Pool is 450 feet away. The nearest bus stop, West End Av/W 59 St, is 130 feet away for the M57, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, seven of them schools, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Lincoln Tunnel
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
West End Av/W 59 St · M57
Within a walk
24 places
7 schools, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
11th Avenue & West End Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is West End Av/W 59 St, 130 feet away, for the M57.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. West End Av/W 59 St M57
    130 feet
    M57

Next buses at this stop

  1. M57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 38 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 11 Ave & W 59 St 32 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Lincoln Tunnel at West 40th Street & Lincoln Tunnel, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 720 11th Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 601 West 57th Street Charging for electric cars, 24 Level 2 chargers
    790 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 815 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 890th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 315 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Southbound on West End Avenue661234
Westbound on West 59th Street15481
Total815315

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10019
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 4
City Council district
6
Police precinct
18 and 20 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side-Lincoln Square

The streets

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

Homes

About 6,600 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 2005 and 2015.

Since 2014 at least 643 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and November 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 11th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 11th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of West 59th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 59th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Bus layover only 3 signs NON-MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000

East side of West End Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 109102, 110471 and 111163.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as French Neoclassical, and built between 1902 and 1905.

  1. Interborough Rapid Transit Company Powerhouse Designated landmark
    560 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 7 schools
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 public spaces
  • 2 parks
  • 1 college
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Children's Center of John Jay College of Criminal Justice Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    170 feet
  2. CUNY John Jay Col Crim Justice College
    440 feet
  3. The Riverside School for Makers and Artists School
    520 feet
Show all 15
  1. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    350 feet
  2. Abraham Joshua Heschel School
    580 feet
  3. Star a Kidz M Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    640 feet
  4. West End Secondary School
    940 feet
  5. District 2 Pre-K Center at 606 West 57 Street Pre-K center
    970 feet
  6. Roberts Tech & Trade Sch 631 Trade or language school
    1,060 feet
  7. P.S. 452 School
    1,090 feet
  8. Collegiate School
    1,100 feet
  9. Adapt Community Network Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  10. Gateway School of NY School
    1,140 feet
  11. Ucp of NYC - Manhattan Child Program School
    1,240 feet
  12. Hopscotch Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gertrude Ederle Playground
    520 feet
  2. Riverside Park South Park
    1,010 feet
  3. Hudson River Park
    1,170 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Riverside Center Public space
    550 feet
  2. Public space at BMW Public space
    550 feet
  3. Public space at Concerto Public space
    940 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at West End Towers Public space
    1,080 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gertrude Ederle Pool Swimming pool
    450 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    330 feet
  2. Brooklyn Fare Supermarket
    900 feet
  3. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    900 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. The Shops at Columbus Circle Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 11th Avenue, West 59th Street or West End Avenue.

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