Amsterdam Avenue & West 150th Street

Amsterdam Avenue and West 150th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner is also named Firefighter James Ruane Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Joseph Loth & Company Silk Ribbon Factory, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 190 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the A, B, C and D. Within a five-minute walk are 42 public places and 29 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 149 St · M100
Within a walk
42 places
17 religious buildings, 7 gardens and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amsterdam Avenue & West 150th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    0.3 miles
    A B C D

Next trains at this station

Uptown
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. B …
  3. C …
  4. D …
Downtown
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. B …
  3. C …
  4. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 155 St C
    0.3 miles
    C
  2. 145 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 149 St, 110 feet away, for the M100.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 149 St M100
    110 feet
    M100

Next buses at this stop

  1. M100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Amsterdam Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Amsterdam Ave & W 152 St 20 docks in all
    540 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 800 St Nicholas Avenue Gas station
    1,010 feet
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

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
30
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill
Elevation
128 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter James Ruane Way, a co-naming enacted on July 1, 2013 (Local Law 50 of 2013).

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,200 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 1906 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 79 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter James Ruane Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and July 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 1PM-7PM SATURDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

North side of West 150th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

South side of West 150th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 113696.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 91 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1893 and 1898.

  1. Joseph Loth & Company Silk Ribbon Factory Designated landmark
    190 feet
  2. Wilson Major Morris Community Center Designated landmark
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 42 public places.

  • 17 religious buildings
  • 7 gardens
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 4 schools
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New Heights Academy Charter School
    230 feet
  2. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  3. P.S./I.S. 210 - Twenty-First Century Academy for Community Leadership School
    670 feet
Show all 8
  1. Hamilton Heights School Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  2. P.S. 153 Adam Clayton Powell School
    1,120 feet
  3. The William Lynch School
    1,120 feet
  4. Emma Bowen Therapeutic Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,210 feet
  5. Upper Manhattan Mental Health Center Preschool
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lucille McClarey Wicked Friendship Garden
    190 feet
  2. Carmansville Playground
    310 feet
  3. Sugar Hill Hope Garden
    720 feet
Show all 11
  1. Convent Garden
    780 feet
  2. Donnellan Square
    840 feet
  3. Maggie's Garden
    980 feet
  4. Edgecombe Park
    1,180 feet
  5. Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary Garden
    1,180 feet
  6. Jackie Robinson Park
    1,230 feet
  7. Mo' Pals Garden
    1,250 feet
  8. William A. Harris Garden
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 32nd Police Precinct Garage Listed historic place
    540 feet
  2. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    820 feet
  3. Bailey House Listed historic place
    1,010 feet
Show all 4
  1. John James Audubon Houses Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Convenant House of worship
    220 feet
  2. Crucifixion Church House of worship
    400 feet
  3. First Calvary Baptist Church House of worship
    480 feet
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  1. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    550 feet
  2. Tabernacle 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    730 feet
  3. St Luke AME Church House of worship
    730 feet
  4. St Catherine Genoa Church House of worship
    760 feet
  5. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    920 feet
  6. Congregational Church of God House of worship
    940 feet
  7. Jehovahs Witness Broadway House of worship
    980 feet
  8. Russian Holy Fathers Church House of worship
    1,000 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Hamilton Grange Post Office
    1,250 feet

Fire and police

  1. 30th Precinct Police station
    610 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,000 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 places to eat and 22 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Amsterdam Avenue or West 150th 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.