Audubon Avenue & West 165th Street

Audubon Avenue and West 165th Street meet at a three-way junction in Washington Heights (South), Manhattan. The corner is also named Carlos Alberto Martínez Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. McKenna Square is 20 feet away, and Audubon Playground is 1,180 feet away. The nearest subway, 168 St-Washington Hts, is about three minutes on foot, for the 1, A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 52 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
168 St-Washington Hts
860 feet · 3 min on foot · 1, A, C
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 165 St · M3
Within a walk
25 places
7 religious buildings, 7 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Audubon Avenue & West 165th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 168 St-Washington Hts, 860 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 168 St-Washington Hts 1, A, C
    860 feet
    1 A C

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. A …
  3. C …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. A …
  3. C …

Also within a walk

  1. 163 St-Amsterdam Av C
    1,140 feet
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 165 St, 140 feet away, for the M3.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 165 St M3
    140 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 33 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & W 165 St 24 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway at Connector To Cross Bronx Expressway & Amsterdam Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2161 Amsterdam Avenue Gas station
    960 feet
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 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 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10032
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
33
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (South)
Elevation
162 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Carlos Alberto Martínez Way, a co-naming enacted on January 19, 2020 (Local Law 26 of 2020).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,900 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 1910 and 1924.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Carlos Alberto Martínez Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2020 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Audubon Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Audubon Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 165th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY US POSTAL SERVICE
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of West 165th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Mitchel Square.

  1. Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial Statue by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1922
    620 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 3 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics School
    380 feet
  2. Community Math & Science Prep School
    1,020 feet
  3. The Mott Hall School
    1,020 feet
Show all 8
  1. Castle Bridge School
    1,050 feet
  2. P.S. 128 Audubon School
    1,050 feet
  3. Kids-Centric, Inc. Rena Day Care Cen School
    1,220 feet
  4. The Children's Aid Society Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet
  5. P.S. 008 Luis Belliard School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McKenna Square
    20 feet
  2. Mitchel Square
    440 feet
  3. Highbridge Park
    1,030 feet
Show all 6
  1. Audubon Playground
    1,180 feet
  2. Adventure Playground
    1,200 feet
  3. Morris Jumel Community Garden
    1,290 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Plaza Alianza Dominicana Pedestrian plaza
    110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 168th Street Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    850 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Rose of Lima Church House of worship
    290 feet
  2. Capilla Evangelica Church House of worship
    800 feet
  3. Mount Calvary Pentecostal Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Audubon Post Office
    190 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 67 Fire station
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    480 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 52 places to eat and 21 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Audubon Avenue or West 165th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.