Amsterdam Avenue & West 102nd Street

Amsterdam Avenue and West 102nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's Douglass Addition development. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 592 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Young Women's Leadership School is 460 feet away, and West End Presbyterian Church is 870 feet away. The nearest subway, 103 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places and 62 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
103 St
700 feet · 3 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 102 St · M7, M11
Within a walk
25 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 5 religious buildings and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amsterdam Avenue & West 102nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 103 St, 700 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 103 St 1
    700 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. 96 St 1, 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    1 2 3
  2. 103 St B, C
    0.4 miles
    B C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 102 St, 80 feet away, for the M7 and M11.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 102 St M7, M11 · Shelter
    80 feet
    M7 M11
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M7 …
  2. M11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Amsterdam Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 104 St & Amsterdam Ave 47 docks in all
    580 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 204 West 101st Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 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 foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 592 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,084th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 374 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10025
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
7
Police precinct
24
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley
Elevation
100 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are 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 1920 and 1958.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Douglass Addition development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 102nd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 102nd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 110923.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are six Individual Landmarks, and 58 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1892 and 1901.

  1. Association Residence for Respectable Aged Indigent Females Designated landmark
    420 feet
  2. Horn & Hardart Automat-Cafeteria Designated landmark
    590 feet
  3. Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences Designated landmark
    610 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Riverside Health Center.

  1. Inside Out Site-specific installation by Richard Artschwager, 2014
    660 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Young Women's Leadership School
    460 feet
  2. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    600 feet
  3. Purple Circle Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care
    630 feet
Show all 8
  1. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    960 feet
  2. La Escuelita Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    980 feet
  3. P.S. 145, the Bloomingdale School
    1,010 feet
  4. Morningside Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet
  5. Yaldaynu Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Frederick Douglass Playground
    60 feet
  2. Bloomingdale Playground
    580 feet
  3. Happy Warrior Playground
    640 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Association Residence Nursing Home Listed historic place
    540 feet
  2. Row Houses at 854-858 West End Avenue and 254 West 102nd Street Listed historic place
    860 feet
  3. Bloomingdale Library
    940 feet
Show all 4
  1. St. Michael's Church Complex Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    610 feet
  2. St Michaels Episcopal Church Landmark
    720 feet
  3. West End Presbyterian Church Listed historic place
    870 feet
Show all 5
  1. St Gerasimos Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    950 feet
  2. Ansche Chesed Synagogue House of worship
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at Douglass Addition Older adult center
    190 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Playground Mini Pool Swimming pool
    350 feet
  3. YMCA Grosvenor Neighborhood House Community center
    740 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 11/Engine 76/Ladder 22 Fire station
    960 feet
  2. 24th Precinct Police station
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    710 feet
  2. Columbus Foodmarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    600 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    680 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 62 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Amsterdam Avenue or West 102nd Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.