Amsterdam Avenue & West 136th Street

Amsterdam Avenue and West 136th Street meet at a three-way junction in Manhattanville-West Harlem, Manhattan. The corner is also named DJ Jinx Paul Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Jacob H. Schiff Playground is 60 feet away, and CUNY City College is 430 feet away. The nearest subway, 137 St-City College, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, two of them parks, and 34 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
137 St-City College
1,170 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 135 St · M100, M101
Within a walk
14 places
2 parks, 2 playgrounds and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amsterdam Avenue & West 136th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 137 St-City College, 1,170 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 137 St-City College 1
    1,170 feet
    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

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, 100 feet away, for the M100 and M101.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M100 …
  2. M101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Amsterdam Avenue.

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at West 135th Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 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
10031
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7 and 9 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
26 and 30 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Manhattanville-West Harlem
Elevation
148 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: DJ Jinx Paul Way (Local Law 110 of 2023, enacted on July 23, 2023) and Adolph Lewisohn Plaza (Local Law 67 of 1972, enacted on October 19, 1972).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 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 1905 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 14 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 104 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 1PM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-1PM

North side of West 136th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of West 136th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 113697.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as English Collegiate Gothic. They were built between 1884 and 1930.

  1. Townsend Harris Hall (Sub-Freshman Building) Designated landmark
    650 feet
  2. Wingate Hall (Gymnasium) Designated landmark
    670 feet
  3. New York Training School for Teachers and New York Model School Designated landmark
    670 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. CUNY City College
    430 feet
  2. P.S. 161 Pedro Albizu Campos School
    850 feet
  3. A. Philip Randolph Campus High School
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. City College Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jacob H. Schiff Playground
    60 feet
  2. Annunciation Playground
    310 feet
  3. St. Nicholas Park
    1,070 feet
Show all 5
  1. Montefiore Square
    1,200 feet
  2. James Baldwin Lawn in St. Nicholas Park Park feature
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Montefiore Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,290 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

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

Fire and police

  1. Engine 80/Ladder 23 Fire station
    970 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,280 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 places to eat and 20 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 136th 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.