Amsterdam Avenue & West 140th Street

Amsterdam Avenue and West 140th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner is also named Dorothy Skinner Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the Hamilton Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Baskerville Hall (Chemistry Building), one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 150 feet away. The nearest subway, 137 St-City College, is about five minutes on foot, for the 1.

Safety record
6 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
137 St-City College
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 140 St · M101
Within a walk
29 places
9 religious buildings, 4 listed historic places and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amsterdam Avenue & West 140th 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 five minutes on foot.

  • 5 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. 145 St A, B, C, D
    0.4 miles
    A B C D
  2. 145 St 1
    0.4 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 140 St, 170 feet away, for the M101.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 140 St M101
    170 feet
    M101

Next buses at this stop

  1. M101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Amsterdam Avenue.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hamilton Pl & W 140 St 21 docks in all
    480 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at West 135th Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016
  • Turn calming, 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)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill
Elevation
139 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dorothy Skinner Way, a co-naming enacted on August 10, 2015 (Local Law 76 of 2015).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 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 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 1PM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-1PM

West side of Amsterdam Avenue

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

North side of West 140th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of West 140th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 109378 and 109542.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Hamilton Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 98 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1898 and 1906.

  1. Baskerville Hall (Chemistry Building) Designated landmark
    150 feet
  2. Compton Hall (Mechanic Arts Building) Designated landmark
    220 feet
  3. Goethals Hall (Technology Building) Designated landmark
    330 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 4 schools
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering at City College School
    380 feet
  2. Our Lady of Lourdes School
    890 feet
  3. CUNY City College
    1,150 feet
Show all 5
  1. Hamilton Grange Middle School
    1,260 feet
  2. P.S. 192 Jacob H. Schiff School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Alexander Hamilton Playground
    480 feet
  2. Hope Steven Garden
    570 feet
  3. Jacob H. Schiff Playground
    580 feet
Show all 8
  1. St. Nicholas Park
    680 feet
  2. Johnny Hartman Square
    830 feet
  3. Frank White Memorial Garden
    1,040 feet
  4. Montefiore Square
    1,060 feet
  5. Arlington "Ollie" Edinboro Playground
    1,130 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Johnny Hartman Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    940 feet
  2. Montefiore Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. College of the City of New York Listed historic place
    720 feet
  2. Hamilton Grange National Memorial Listed historic place
    830 feet
  3. Hamilton Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
Show all 4
  1. Ivey Delph Apartments Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Lourdes Church Landmark · listed historic place
    630 feet
  2. St Lukes Episcopal Church House of worship
    790 feet
  3. St James Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,080 feet
Show all 4
  1. Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 80/Ladder 23 Fire station
    350 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 places to eat and 22 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Amsterdam Avenue or West 140th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.