12th Avenue & West 135th Street

The three-way junction of 12th Avenue and West 135th Street is in Manhattanville-West Harlem, Manhattan. It stands inside Riverside Park. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Kipp Infinity Charter School is 760 feet away. The nearest subway, 137 St-City College, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them parks, and three places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
137 St-City College
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
740 feet
W 135 St/Riverside Dr · M5, M11
Within a walk
7 places
3 parks, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
12th Avenue & West 135th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 137 St-City College, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 137 St-City College 1
    0.3 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. 125 St 1
    0.5 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Fossils” (1988) by Steve Wood at the 137 St-City College station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 135 St/Riverside Dr, 740 feet away, for the M5 and M11.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 135 St/Riverside Dr M5, M11 · Shelter
    740 feet
    M5 M11
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …
  2. M11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 133 St & 12 Ave 19 docks in all
    600 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at West 135th Street, 120 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 3260 Broadway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, July 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10027
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7
Police precinct
30
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Manhattanville-West Harlem
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 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 1905 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2015 and July 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO DEPARTMENT OF PARKS & RECREATION
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 12th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY

North side of West 135th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of West 135th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest at West Harlem Piers.

  1. Voice IV Sculpture by Nari Ward, 2009
    710 feet
  2. Voice II Sculpture by Nari Ward, 2009
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 3 schools
  • 1 garden

This corner stands inside Riverside Park.

Schools and child care

  1. Kipp Infinity Charter School
    760 feet
  2. Kipp S.T.A.R. College Preparatory Charter School
    770 feet
  3. Kipp Star Harlem College Prep Elementary School
    770 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park
    surrounds this corner
  2. West Harlem Piers Park
    260 feet
  3. Riverbank State Park
    510 feet
Show all 4
  1. Jenny's Garden
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Avenue or West 135th Street.

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