Audubon Avenue & West 166th Street

Audubon Avenue and West 166th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Washington Heights (South), Manhattan. The corner is also named Dr. Nasry Michelen Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Plaza Alianza Dominicana is 130 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 23 public places, seven of them schools, and 52 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
168 St-Washington Hts
670 feet · 3 min on foot · 1, A, C
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 165 St · M3
Within a walk
23 places
7 schools, 6 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Audubon Avenue & West 166th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 168 St-Washington Hts, 670 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 168 St-Washington Hts 1, A, C
    670 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
    0.3 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 165 St, 280 feet away, for the M3.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 35 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 6 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & W 168 St 31 docks in all
    740 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway at Connector To Cross Bronx Expressway & Amsterdam Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2161 Amsterdam Avenue Gas station
    730 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 five crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 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
163 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dr. Nasry Michelen 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 2,400 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 1910 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dr. Nasry Michelen Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2024 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Audubon Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-7PM

West side of Audubon Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 166th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 166th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

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
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 7 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics School
    620 feet
  2. Castle Bridge School
    810 feet
  3. P.S. 128 Audubon School
    810 feet
Show all 8
  1. The Children's Aid Society Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
  2. P.S. 008 Luis Belliard School
    1,030 feet
  3. Kids-Centric, Inc. Rena Day Care Cen School
    1,060 feet
  4. Community Math & Science Prep School
    1,260 feet
  5. The Mott Hall School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mitchel Square
    260 feet
  2. McKenna Square
    260 feet
  3. Audubon Playground
    940 feet
Show all 4
  1. Highbridge Park
    1,070 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Plaza Alianza Dominicana Pedestrian plaza
    130 feet

Health care

  1. New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Presbyterian Center Hospital
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Houses of worship

  1. St Rose of Lima Church House of worship
    530 feet
  2. Capilla Evangelica Church House of worship
    700 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Audubon Post Office
    280 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 67 Fire station
    1,060 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    720 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 52 places to eat and 20 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Audubon Avenue or West 166th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.