12th Avenue & West Side Highway at West 52nd Street

The five-way junction of 12th Avenue, West Side Highway and West 52nd Street is in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. De Witt Clinton Park is 80 feet away, and Hudsonway Immersion School is 1,290 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 12 Av/W 52 St, is 70 feet away for the M12, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them parks, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Lincoln Tunnel
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
12 Av/W 52 St · M12
Within a walk
6 places
2 parks, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
12th Avenue & West Side Highway at West 52nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 12 Av/W 52 St, 70 feet away, for the M12.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 12 Av/W 52 St M12
    70 feet
    M12

Next buses at this stop

  1. M12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on West 52nd Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 52 St & 11 Ave 55 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Lincoln Tunnel at West 40th Street & Lincoln Tunnel, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 11th Avenue Gas station
    1,090 feet
  2. 601 West 57th Street Charging for electric cars, 24 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

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

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2019 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 5PM-6AM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Bus layover only 3 signs NON-MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • Taxi stand 1 sign TAXI STAND MONDAY - FRIDAY 6AM - 5PM

North side of West 52nd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

South side of West 52nd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in De Witt Clinton Park.

  1. Clinton War Memorial Statue by Burt William Johnson, 1929
    560 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Horizons at West 53rd Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet
  2. Hudsonway Immersion School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. De Witt Clinton Park
    80 feet
  2. Hudson River Park
    90 feet
  3. De Witt Clinton Park Playground
    190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. The Emerson Listed historic place
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, 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 12th Avenue, West 52nd Street or West Side Highway.

Sources: NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.