12th Avenue & West Side Highway at West 56th Street

The five-way junction of 12th Avenue, West Side Highway and West 56th Street is in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 60 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Hudson River Park is 100 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 12 Av/W 55 St, is 390 feet away for the M12, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and six places to eat.

Safety record
40 hurt
60 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Lincoln Tunnel
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
12 Av/W 55 St · M12
Within a walk
7 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
12th Avenue & West Side Highway at West 56th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 12 Av/W 55 St, 390 feet away, for the M12.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 12 Av/W 55 St M12
    390 feet
    M12

Next buses at this stop

  1. M12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 28 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 54 St & 11 Ave 59 docks in all
    1,290 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
    1,020 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 60 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10019
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 4
City Council district
6
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 2,400 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 2013 and 2015.

Since 2014 at least 401 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2018 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 56th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 56th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

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
    770 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Clinton Cove at Hudson River Park.

  1. Private Passage Sculpture by Malcolm Cochran, 2005
    240 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Hopscotch Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    470 feet
  2. District 2 Pre-K Center at 606 West 57 Street Pre-K center
    660 feet
  3. The Hudson Guild Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hudson River Park
    100 feet
  2. De Witt Clinton Park
    630 feet
  3. De Witt Clinton Park Playground
    880 feet
Show all 4
  1. Riverside Park South Park
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Brooklyn Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 12th Avenue, West 56th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.