Audubon Avenue & West 171st Street

Audubon Avenue and West 171st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Washington Heights (South), Manhattan. The corner is also named Wilson Batista Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The Engine 67 firehouse is 430 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 16 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 41 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
168 St-Washington Hts
890 feet · 3 min on foot · 1, A, C
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 172 St · M3
Within a walk
16 places
5 religious buildings, 3 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Audubon Avenue & West 171st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 168 St-Washington Hts, 890 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 168 St-Washington Hts 1, A, C
    890 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. 175 St A
    0.4 miles
    A

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 172 St, 560 feet away, for the M3.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 172 St M3
    560 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 171 St & St Nicholas Ave 31 docks in all
    500 feet

By car

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

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2024
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2026

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
190 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Wilson Batista Corner, a co-naming enacted on December 5, 2006 (Local Law 50 of 2006).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,400 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 1909 and 1922.

Since 2014 at least 10 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Wilson Batista Corner.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2013 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Audubon Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Audubon Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of West 171st Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 171st Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1897 and 1936.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Castle Bridge School
    830 feet
  2. P.S. 128 Audubon School
    830 feet
  3. Incarnation School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Audubon Playground
    320 feet
  2. Highbridge Park
    540 feet
  3. CPF Playground
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. Mitchel Square
    1,190 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 13 Ambulance station
    680 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of the Incarnation RC House of worship
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Highbridge Recreation Center Landmark
    960 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 67 Fire station
    430 feet
  2. 33rd Precinct Police station
    1,140 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    800 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 41 places to eat and 25 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Audubon Avenue or West 171st 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.