Amsterdam Avenue & West 108th Street

Amsterdam Avenue and West 108th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. The corner is also named Rafael “Monkey” Delgado Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Booker T. Washington Playground is 200 feet away, and West Prep Academy is 470 feet away. The nearest subway, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), is about five minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 31 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 73 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cathedral Pkwy (110 St)
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 109 St · M11
Within a walk
31 places
10 religious buildings, 5 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amsterdam Avenue & West 108th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) 1
    0.3 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 109 St, 370 feet away, for the M11.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 109 St M11 · Shelter
    370 feet
    M11
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Amsterdam Avenue.

  • 50 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 110 St & Amsterdam Ave 45 docks in all
    820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 532 West 122nd Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016

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 Rafael “Monkey” Delgado Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 5,200 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 1910 and 1929.

Since 2014 at least 199 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rafael “Monkey” Delgado Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 58 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and April 2025; 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 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM

West side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 1PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-1PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of West 108th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of West 108th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 109250, 113735 and 114111.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 16 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1908 and 1911.

  1. Synod House Designated landmark
    630 feet
  2. St. Faith's House (New York Training School for Deaconesses) Designated landmark
    720 feet
  3. Explorers Club Designated landmark
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 gardens
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. West Prep Academy School
    470 feet
  2. P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon School
    560 feet
  3. Sequence For Cidz Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    580 feet
Show all 9
  1. J.H.S. 054 Booker T. Washington School
    810 feet
  2. Cathedral Parkway Towers Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  3. Bloomingdale Family Program Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  4. Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in the City and Dioceses of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,110 feet
  5. School at Columbia University (The) School
    1,160 feet
  6. P.S. 145, the Bloomingdale School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Booker T. Washington Playground
    200 feet
  2. Anibal Aviles Playground
    450 feet
  3. The Julia Gabriel People's Garden
    840 feet
Show all 6
  1. Bloomingdale Playground
    920 feet
  2. Mobilization For Change Community Garden
    1,210 feet
  3. Straus Park
    1,220 feet

Health care

  1. The New Jewish Home, Manhattan Nursing home or hospice
    1,140 feet
  2. Amsterdam Nursing Home Corp (1992) Nursing home or hospice
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Association Residence Nursing Home Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Pentecostal Church John 8:32 House of worship
    470 feet
  2. Ascension Roman Catholic Church House of worship
    610 feet
  3. West End Presbyterian Church Listed historic place
    770 feet
Show all 6
  1. St Gerasimos Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    850 feet
  2. St John Divine Cathedral House of worship
    1,110 feet
  3. Ramath Orah Congregation Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 221 West 107th Street Older adult center
    770 feet
  2. Older adult center at 135 West 106th Street Older adult center
    840 feet
  3. YMCA Grosvenor Neighborhood House Community center
    880 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    990 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,170 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Central Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 73 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Amsterdam Avenue or West 108th 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.