Amsterdam Avenue & West 176th Street

Amsterdam Avenue and West 176th Street meet at a three-way junction in Washington Heights (South), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Highbridge Park is 50 feet away, and Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Washington Heights is 1,310 feet away. The nearest subway, 175 St, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, three of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
175 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 176 St · M101
Within a walk
13 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amsterdam Avenue & West 176th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 175 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 175 St A
    0.4 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 181 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 176 St, 110 feet away, for the M101.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 176 St M101 · Shelter
    110 feet
    M101
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic 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. Amsterdam Ave & W 175 St 23 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway at Connector To Cross Bronx Expressway & Amsterdam Avenue, 710 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 4116 Broadway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10033
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
33
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (South)
Elevation
168 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1907 and 1915.

Trees

NYC Parks records 101 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2013 and April 2013, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of West 176th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 176th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Art Moderne. They were built between 1934 and 1936.

  1. Highbridge Play Center Promenade Designated landmark
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Dominican Women's Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    110 feet
  2. Kipp Star Elementary Charter School
    830 feet
  3. P.S. 115 Alexander Humboldt School
    830 feet
Show all 5
  1. Incarnation School
    1,060 feet
  2. Washington Heights Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highbridge Park
    50 feet
  2. Quisqueya Playground
    980 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 13 Ambulance station
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. High Bridge Aqueduct and Water Tower Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of the Incarnation RC House of worship
    1,110 feet
  2. Pentecostal Church Washington Heights House of worship
    1,210 feet
  3. Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Washington Heights House of worship
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Highbridge Recreation Center Landmark
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Amsterdam Avenue or West 176th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.