Amsterdam Avenue & West 190th Street

Amsterdam Avenue and West 190th Street meet at a three-way junction in Washington Heights (North), Manhattan. The corner is also named Professor Juan Bosch Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Juan Bosch Plaza in Highbridge Park is 120 feet away, and High School for Law and Public Service is 870 feet away. The nearest subway, 191 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
191 St
1,120 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 190 St · M3, M101
Within a walk
14 places
6 schools, 2 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amsterdam Avenue & West 190th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 191 St, 1,120 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. 191 St 1
    1,120 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

The Bronx
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Primavera” (2003) by Raúl Colón at the 191 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 190 St, 120 feet away, for the M3 and M101.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 190 St M3, M101
    120 feet
    M3 M101

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …
  2. M101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Amsterdam Avenue.

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 5 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Amsterdam Ave & W 189 St 21 docks in all
    220 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway southbound at Amsterdam Avenue & Cross Bronx Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4353 Broadway Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10040
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (North)
Elevation
199 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Professor Juan Bosch Way, a co-naming enacted on July 17, 2009 (Local Law 46 of 2009).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,900 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 1917 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 92 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the cherry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Professor Juan Bosch Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2013 and August 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 7 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 16 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 190th Street

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

South side of West 190th Street

  • Back-in parking only 3 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 college
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 189 School
    430 feet
  2. High School for Health Careers and Sciences School
    870 feet
  3. High School for Law and Public Service School
    870 feet
Show all 7
  1. High School for Media and Communications School
    870 feet
  2. The College Academy School
    870 feet
  3. Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theo Seminary College
    1,060 feet
  4. Yeshiva University High School
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highbridge Park
    60 feet
  2. Juan Bosch Plaza in Highbridge Park Park feature
    120 feet
  3. Wallenberg Playground
    280 feet
Show all 4
  1. Dog Run in Highbridge Park Dog run
    940 feet

Health care

  1. Isabella Geriatric Center Nursing home or hospice
    360 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,110 feet
  2. Dan's Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Amsterdam Avenue or West 190th 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.