Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard & West 131st Street

Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard and West 131st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Harlem (North), Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's Saint Nicholas development. The corner is also named Bishop William Yancy Bell Sr. Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The sculpture “Tree of Hope III” is 70 feet away. The nearest subway, 135 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 64 public places and ten places to eat.

Safety record
17 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
135 St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Adam C Powell Blvd/W 131 St · M2
Within a walk
64 places
31 religious buildings, 8 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard & West 131st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 135 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 6 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 135 St 2, 3
    0.4 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. 125 St A, B, C, D
    0.4 miles
    A B C D
  2. 135 St B, C
    0.4 miles
    B C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Harlem Timeline” (1995) by Willie Birch at the 135 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Adam C Powell Blvd/W 131 St, 130 feet away, for the M2.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Adam C Powell Blvd/W 131 St M2
    130 feet
    M2

Next buses at this stop

  1. M2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Adam Clayton Powell Blvd & W 130 St 22 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive southbound at Park Avenue & East 132nd Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 123 Morningside Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10027
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
9
Police precinct
32
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Harlem (North)
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Bishop William Yancy Bell Sr. Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Saint Nicholas development.

Since 2014 at least 118 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Bishop William Yancy Bell Sr. Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in November 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 110342.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 168 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1884 and 1889.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Malls.

  1. Tree of Hope III Sculpture by Algernon Miller, 1972
    70 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 64 public places.

  • 31 religious buildings
  • 8 schools
  • 7 day care or pre-K sites
  • 6 gardens
  • 5 listed historic places
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Heaven's Tiny Tots Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    470 feet
  2. Teachers College Community School Pre-K
    690 feet
  3. Democracy Preparatory Harlem Charter School
    750 feet
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  1. Utopia Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
  2. Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change School
    1,100 feet
  3. Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy Charter School
    1,110 feet
  4. Democracy Prep Charter High School
    1,120 feet
  5. P.S. 092 Mary McLeod Bethune School
    1,120 feet
  6. St. Hope Leadership Academy Charter School
    1,120 feet
  7. New York Center for Child Developmen Preschool
    1,150 feet
  8. Urban Concepts of New York Round-The-Clock Nursery Pre-K
    1,210 feet
  9. Saint Nicholas Child care
    1,230 feet
  10. P.S. 175 Henry H Garnet School
    1,250 feet
  11. Success Academy Charter MS Harlem North Central School
    1,250 feet
  12. Uptown Harlem Gems School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Langston Hughes Playground
    310 feet
  2. St. Nicholas Playground South Playground
    600 feet
  3. 132 St Block Association Park
    830 feet
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  1. West 132nd Street Garden
    830 feet
  2. 133rd Swing Street Garden
    840 feet
  3. Love Garden - Saint Nicholas Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    880 feet
  4. Harlem Valley Garden
    940 feet
  5. Harlem Grows 134th Street Green House Garden
    970 feet
  6. Harlem Grows 134th Street Farm Garden
    1,010 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. National Headquarters, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Listed historic place
    430 feet
  2. New York Amsterdam News Building Listed historic place
    1,060 feet
  3. Florence Mills House Listed historic place
    1,220 feet
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  1. Claude McKay House Listed historic place
    1,240 feet
  2. James Weldon Johnson House Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Shiloh Baptist Church House of worship
    110 feet
  2. Friendship Baptist Church Landmark
    320 feet
  3. St Aloysius RC Church Landmark
    390 feet
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  1. Salem United Methodist Church Listed historic place
    470 feet
  2. Bethlehem Moriah Baptist Church House of worship
    520 feet
  3. Beulah Baptist Church House of worship
    520 feet
  4. St Pauls Baptist Church House of worship
    670 feet
  5. Metropolitan Baptist Church Landmark · listed historic place
    710 feet
  6. St Philips Church Landmark · listed historic place
    800 feet
  7. Glendale Baptist Church House of worship
    970 feet
  8. Prophetic Church House of worship
    1,030 feet
  9. Redeemed Christian Church of God House of Prayer House of worship
    1,120 feet
  10. St John Pentecostal Church House of worship
    1,120 feet
  11. Holy Cross African Orthodox Church Listed historic place
    1,150 feet
  12. Grace Gospel Chapel House of worship
    1,160 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 210 West 131st Street Older adult center
    230 feet
  2. Community center at Saint Nicholas Community center
    440 feet
  3. Harlem YMCA Recreation center
    1,080 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 59/Ladder 30 Fire station
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    230 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,240 feet
  3. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    1,250 feet

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 18 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard or West 131st 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.