Amsterdam Avenue & West 84th Street

Amsterdam Avenue and West 84th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side (Central), Manhattan. The corner is also named Linda Carter Cooper Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. First Church of Religious Science is 200 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places and 128 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
960 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 83 St · M7, M11
Within a walk
26 places
9 schools, 7 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amsterdam Avenue & West 84th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 960 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 86 St 1
    960 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 79 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1
  2. 86 St B, C
    0.4 miles
    B C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Westside Views” (1989) by Nitza Tufiño (in collaboration with Grosvenor Neighborhood House Student Muralists) at the 86 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 83 St, 190 feet away, for the M7 and M11.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 83 St M7, M11 · Shelter
    190 feet
    M7 M11
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M7 …
  2. M11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Amsterdam Avenue.

  • 69 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 84 St & Amsterdam Ave 35 docks in all
    120 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 160 West 84th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    100 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

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.

  • 3 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 May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016
  • Turn calming, December 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10024
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6
Police precinct
20
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side (Central)
Elevation
88 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Linda Carter Cooper Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 5,400 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 1900 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Linda Carter Cooper Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2023 and August 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 1PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 7AM-1PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM

West side of Amsterdam Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 1PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 7AM-1PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of West 84th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Electric vehicle charging only 2 signs ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING ONLY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 111392, 112147, 114373 and 114377.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District.

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 154 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1886 and 1894.

  1. Metropolitan Fireproof Warehouse Designated landmark
    370 feet
  2. Broadway Fashion Building Designated landmark
    620 feet
  3. Congregation Shaaray Tefila Community House Designated landmark
    630 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 9 schools
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Frank McCourt High School
    670 feet
  2. Innovation Diploma Plus School
    670 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Upper West School
    670 feet
Show all 13
  1. The Global Learning Collaborative School
    670 feet
  2. The Urban Assembly School for Green Careers School
    670 feet
  3. Happy Kids, NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    680 feet
  4. M.S. 243 Center School
    850 feet
  5. P.S. 009 Sarah Anderson School
    850 feet
  6. All My Children Day Care and Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  7. Bnos Aliya School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,050 feet
  8. Gan Aliya School
    1,150 feet
  9. Smith School
    1,150 feet
  10. The Child Center of NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Children's Museum of Manhattan Museum
    400 feet
  2. St. Agnes Library
    720 feet
  3. Belnord Apartments Listed historic place
    920 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Church of Religious Science House of worship
    200 feet
  2. Holy Trinity RC Church House of worship
    540 feet
  3. West Park Presbyterian Church Landmark
    640 feet
Show all 6
  1. St Vladimir Ukranian Orthodox Church Landmark
    680 feet
  2. Congregation Ohav Sholom House of worship
    740 feet
  3. The Jewish Center House of worship
    1,050 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Planetarium Post Office
    580 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 74 Fire station
    970 feet
  2. 20th Precinct Police station
    1,250 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    960 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,140 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    490 feet
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    940 feet
  3. Zabar's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    650 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 128 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Amsterdam Avenue or West 84th 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, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.