Amsterdam Avenue & West 134th Street

Amsterdam Avenue and West 134th Street meet at a three-way junction in Manhattanville-West Harlem, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. New York Training School for Teachers and New York Model School, one of three Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 780 feet away, and Manhattan Baptist Church is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, 137 St-City College, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, five of them schools, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
137 St-City College
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 135 St · M100, M101
Within a walk
18 places
5 schools, 3 religious buildings and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amsterdam Avenue & West 134th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 137 St-City College, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 137 St-City College 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. 135 St B, C
    0.3 miles
    B C
  2. 125 St 1
    0.5 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Fossils” (1988) by Steve Wood at the 137 St-City College station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 135 St, 150 feet away, for the M100 and M101.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 135 St M100, M101
    150 feet
    M100 M101

Next buses at this stop

  1. M100 …
  2. M101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Amsterdam Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Amsterdam Ave & W 136 St 21 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at West 133rd Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3260 Broadway Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    720 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10031
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7
Police precinct
26 and 30 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Manhattanville-West Harlem
Elevation
117 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 161 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of West 134th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

South side of West 134th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Three buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Contemporary Collegiate Gothic, Romanesque Revival and neo-Renaissance, one each, and built between 1884 and 1926.

  1. New York Training School for Teachers and New York Model School Designated landmark
    780 feet
  2. Claremont Theater Designated landmark
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 college
  • 1 community center
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 161 Pedro Albizu Campos School
    290 feet
  2. City College Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet
  3. Success Academy CS Harlem 4 MS School
    840 feet
Show all 7
  1. Success Academy Harlem Central Middle School
    840 feet
  2. CUNY City College
    990 feet
  3. A. Philip Randolph Campus High School
    1,080 feet
  4. Sisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem School
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Annunciation Playground
    60 feet
  2. Jacob H. Schiff Playground
    620 feet
  3. St. Nicholas Park
    1,110 feet
Show all 4
  1. James Baldwin Lawn in St. Nicholas Park Park feature
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Manhattanville Houses Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Harlem Stage Gatehouse Theater or concert hall · landmark · listed historic place
    340 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Annunciation RC Church House of worship
    780 feet
  2. Manhattan Baptist Church House of worship
    1,110 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Manhattanville Community Center
    800 feet
  2. Older adult center at 530 West 133rd Street Older adult center
    800 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    890 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Amsterdam Avenue or West 134th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.