Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard & West 114th Street

Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard and West 114th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Harlem (South), Manhattan. The corner is also named Edouard E. Plummer Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Mount Neboh Baptist Church is 110 feet away, and Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School is 430 feet away. The nearest subway, 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, is about five minutes on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
110 St-Malcolm X Plaza
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
160 feet
Adam C Powell Blvd/W 114 St · M2
Within a walk
29 places
9 religious buildings, 7 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard & West 114th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. 116 St B, C
    0.3 miles
    B C
  2. 116 St 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Message from Malcolm” (1998) by Maren Hassinger at the 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Adam C Powell Blvd/W 114 St, 160 feet away, for the M2.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Adam C Powell Blvd/W 114 St M2
    160 feet
    M2

Next buses at this stop

  1. M2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 62 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Adam Clayton Powell Blvd & W 115 St 22 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at East 116th Street & FDR Drive, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 123 Morningside Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 532 West 122nd Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10026
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
9
Police precinct
28
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Harlem (South)
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Edouard E. Plummer Place, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,200 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 1900 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 10 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 86 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Edouard E. Plummer Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2019 and September 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Four buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italian Renaissance, and built between 1899 and 1913.

  1. Graham Court Apartments Designated landmark
    730 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School
    430 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School-Harlem West School
    430 feet
  3. Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing & Visual Arts School · landmark
    430 feet
Show all 9
  1. Opportunity Charter School
    810 feet
  2. STEM Institute of Manhattan School
    810 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 4 School
    810 feet
  4. Citizens Care Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  5. Heaven's Tiny Tots Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  6. Harlem Link Charter School-Annex School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Samuel Marx Triangle
    310 feet
  2. Luigi's Garden of Love Garden
    740 feet
  3. A Philip Randolph Square
    760 feet
Show all 7
  1. Martin Luther King, Jr. Playground
    970 feet
  2. Electric Ladybug Garden
    1,050 feet
  3. Carrie McCracken TRUCE Garden
    1,060 feet
  4. Central Park Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. West 114th Street Historic District Listed historic place
    480 feet
  2. Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library Landmark · listed historic place
    530 feet
  3. Minton's Playhouse Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Neboh Baptist Church Listed historic place
    110 feet
  2. All Souls Church West Harlem House of worship
    340 feet
  3. Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    400 feet
Show all 5
  1. First Corinthian Baptist Church Landmark
    470 feet
  2. Canaan Baptist Church House of worship
    680 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Morningside Post Office
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,120 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,260 feet
  3. Lidl Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard or West 114th 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.