12th Avenue & West Side Highway at West 49th Street

The five-way junction of 12th Avenue, West Side Highway and West 49th Street is in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. De Witt Clinton Park is 870 feet away. The nearest bus stop, W 49 St/12 Av, is 20 feet away for the M50, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them parks, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Lincoln Tunnel
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
20 feet
W 49 St/12 Av · M50
Within a walk
5 places
2 parks, 1 museum and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
12th Avenue & West Side Highway at West 49th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 49 St/12 Av, 20 feet away, for the M50.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 49 St/12 Av M50
    20 feet
    M50

Next buses at this stop

  1. M50 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 52 St & 11 Ave 55 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Lincoln Tunnel at West 40th Street & Lincoln Tunnel, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 11th Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 605 West 42nd Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10019
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 4
City Council district
3
Police precinct
18
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hell's Kitchen

The streets

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

Homes

Within 820 feet of this corner are 24 homes, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2022 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 5PM-6AM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Taxi stand 1 sign TAXI STAND MONDAY - FRIDAY 6AM - 5PM

North side of West 49th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Bus layover only 2 signs NON-MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000

South side of West 49th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Bus layover only 4 signs NON-MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Passenger Ship Terminal, Pier 88.

  1. Wall Drawing #1252: Scribbles for Pier 88 Mural by Sol LeWitt, 2008
    270 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 museum
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hudson River Park
    70 feet
  2. De Witt Clinton Park
    870 feet
  3. De Witt Clinton Park Playground
    970 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Amish Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk 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 12th Avenue, West 49th Street or West Side Highway.

Sources: 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 Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.