Amsterdam Avenue & West 105th Street

Amsterdam Avenue and West 105th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. The corner is also named Ethel Deas Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. YMCA Grosvenor Neighborhood House is 90 feet away, and St Gerasimos Greek Orthodox Church is 280 feet away. The nearest subway, 103 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 77 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
103 St
960 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 104 St · M7, M11
Within a walk
29 places
8 religious buildings, 4 playgrounds and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amsterdam Avenue & West 105th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 103 St, 960 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 103 St 1
    960 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 104 St, 170 feet away, for the M7 and M11.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 104 St M7, M11 · Shelter
    170 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
    320 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
    0.7 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 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 12 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 June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2026

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
107 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Ethel Deas Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,400 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 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Ethel Deas Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 43 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2020 and June 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM

West side of Amsterdam Avenue

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

North side of West 105th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 105th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY US POSTAL SERVICE 3AM-8PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 109624 and 114574.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 13 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1898 and 1912.

  1. Association Residence for Respectable Aged Indigent Females Designated landmark
    410 feet
  2. Horn & Hardart Automat-Cafeteria Designated landmark
    480 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 older adult centers
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 9 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 145, the Bloomingdale School
    410 feet
  2. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    700 feet
  3. Sequence For Cidz Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    880 feet
Show all 6
  1. Purple Circle Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care
    1,060 feet
  2. Young Women's Leadership School
    1,240 feet
  3. West Prep Academy School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bloomingdale Playground
    100 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Playground
    840 feet
  3. Booker T. Washington Playground
    870 feet
Show all 7
  1. Straus Park
    980 feet
  2. La Perla Garden
    1,000 feet
  3. La Perla Community Garden
    1,000 feet
  4. Anibal Aviles Playground
    1,280 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Association Residence Nursing Home Listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. Riverside-West 105th Street Historic District Listed historic place
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. West End Presbyterian Church Listed historic place
    110 feet
  2. St Gerasimos Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    280 feet
  3. Ascension Roman Catholic Church House of worship
    900 feet
Show all 4
  1. Pentecostal Church John 8:32 House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. YMCA Grosvenor Neighborhood House Community center
    90 feet
  2. Older adult center at Douglass Addition Older adult center
    720 feet
  3. Older adult center at 135 West 106th Street Older adult center
    760 feet
Show all 5
  1. Older adult center at 221 West 107th Street Older adult center
    1,070 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Playground Mini Pool Swimming pool
    1,120 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    970 feet
  2. Columbus Foodmarket Supermarket
    1,240 feet
  3. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    940 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,160 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 77 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Amsterdam Avenue or West 105th 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.