Amsterdam Avenue & West 103rd Street

Amsterdam Avenue and West 103rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's Douglass II development. The corner is also named Odessa Steward Street by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Association Residence for Respectable Aged Indigent Females, one of three Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 190 feet away. The nearest subway, 103 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the 1.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
103 St
440 feet · 2 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 102 St · M7, M11
Within a walk
25 places
6 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amsterdam Avenue & West 103rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 103 St, 440 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 103 St B, C
    0.4 miles
    B C
  2. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) 1
    0.5 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 102 St, 200 feet away, for the M7 and M11.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 102 St M7, M11 · Shelter
    200 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.

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.6 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
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 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 March 2026.

What the city has done here

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

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
99 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Odessa Steward Street, a co-naming enacted on July 11, 2011 (Local Law 47 of 2011).

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 4,800 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 II development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Odessa Steward Street.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2020 and October 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

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 103rd Street

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

South side of West 103rd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 114677.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 36 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1891 and 1900.

  1. Association Residence for Respectable Aged Indigent Females Designated landmark
    190 feet
  2. Horn & Hardart Automat-Cafeteria Designated landmark
    420 feet
  3. Marseilles Hotel Designated landmark
    590 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 9 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Purple Circle Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care
    540 feet
  2. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    700 feet
  3. Young Women's Leadership School
    720 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 145, the Bloomingdale School
    750 feet
  2. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  3. La Escuelita Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bloomingdale Playground
    310 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Playground
    320 feet
  3. Happy Warrior Playground
    910 feet

Health care

  1. The New Jewish Home, Manhattan Nursing home or hospice
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Association Residence Nursing Home Listed historic place
    270 feet
  2. Row Houses at 854-858 West End Avenue and 254 West 102nd Street Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  3. Bloomingdale Library
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. West End Presbyterian Church Listed historic place
    600 feet
  2. St Gerasimos Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    690 feet
  3. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    870 feet
Show all 4
  1. St Michaels Episcopal Church House of worship
    980 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at Douglass Addition Older adult center
    200 feet
  2. YMCA Grosvenor Neighborhood House Community center
    480 feet
  3. Frederick Douglass Playground Mini Pool Swimming pool
    600 feet
Show all 4
  1. Older adult center at 135 West 106th Street Older adult center
    1,290 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 11/Engine 76/Ladder 22 Fire station
    1,230 feet
  2. 24th Precinct Police station
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    450 feet
  2. Columbus Foodmarket Supermarket
    1,280 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    420 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    640 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 72 places to eat and 18 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Amsterdam Avenue or West 103rd Street.

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