Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard & West 151st Street

Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard and West 151st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Harlem (North), Manhattan. The corner is also named Edwin Eddie Ellis Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Frederick Johnson Playground is 90 feet away, and Bill Bojangles Robinson Playground is 250 feet away. The nearest subway, Harlem-148 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, three of them parks, and four places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Harlem-148 St
600 feet · 2 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Adam C Powell Blvd/W 151 St · M2
Within a walk
18 places
3 parks, 3 playgrounds and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard & West 151st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Harlem-148 St, 600 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Harlem-148 St 3
    600 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Downtown
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. 155 St B, D
    0.4 miles
    B D
  2. 145 St 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Adam C Powell Blvd/W 151 St, 140 feet away, for the M2.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Adam C Powell Blvd/W 151 St M2 · Shelter
    140 feet
    M2
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 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 151 St 18 docks in all
    70 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 228 West 145th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2022
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10039
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
9
Police precinct
32
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Harlem (North)
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Edwin Eddie Ellis Way, 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 2,200 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 1920 and 1936.

Since 2014 at least 51 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 83 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Edwin Eddie Ellis Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

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

West side of Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 17 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1926 and 1937.

  1. Harlem River Houses Designated landmark
    180 feet
  2. Dunbar Apartments Designated landmark
    420 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Frederick Johnson Playground.

  1. Frederick Johnson Memorial Stele by Robert W. Pugh, 1971
    240 feet
  2. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Mural Mural, 1992
    280 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School
    500 feet
  2. Mary Walton Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
  3. Frederick Douglass Academy School
    680 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 200- the James McCune Smith School
    680 feet
  2. Community Life Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Frederick Johnson Playground
    90 feet
  2. Bill Bojangles Robinson Playground
    250 feet
  3. Brigadier General Charles Young Triangle
    600 feet
Show all 7
  1. Percy E. Sutton Playground
    410 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Boulevard Community Garden
    1,180 feet
  3. Jackie Robinson Park
    1,250 feet
  4. Holcombe Rucker Park
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Macomb's Bridge Library
    220 feet
  2. Matthew Henson Residence Listed historic place
    930 feet
  3. West 147th-149th Streets Historic District Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Matthews Baptist Church House of worship
    810 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Colonial Park Post Office
    960 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Emporium Supermarket
    1,000 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other places

  1. Yankee Stadium Ferry Landing
    970 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and ten 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 151st 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.