Bradhurst Avenue & West 149th Street

Bradhurst Avenue and West 149th Street meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Jackie Robinson Park is 40 feet away, and Jackie Robinson Play Center Comfort Station stands 70 feet away. The nearest subway, Harlem-148 St, is about five minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Harlem-148 St
1,290 feet · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
Frederick Douglass Blvd/W 148 St · M10
Within a walk
17 places
4 religious buildings, 3 playgrounds and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bradhurst Avenue & West 149th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Harlem-148 St, 1,290 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Harlem-148 St 3
    1,290 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Downtown
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    0.3 miles
    A B C D
  2. 155 St B, D
    0.4 miles
    B D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Frederick Douglass Blvd/W 148 St, 520 feet away, for the M10.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Frederick Douglass Blvd/W 148 St M10 · Shelter
    520 feet
    M10
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 38 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bradhurst Ave & W 148 St 22 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 228 West 145th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10039
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
9
Police precinct
30 and 32 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,000 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 1928.

Since 2014 at least 40 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 142 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and September 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bradhurst Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of West 149th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of West 149th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and 73 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Classical Revival. They were mostly built between 1894 and 1909.

  1. Jackie Robinson Play Center Comfort Station Designated landmark
    70 feet
  2. Dunbar Apartments Designated landmark
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 park
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jackie Robinson Park
    40 feet
  2. Playground 149 CIL Playground
    60 feet
  3. Bandshell in Jackie Robinson Park Park feature · landmark
    410 feet
Show all 7
  1. Bradhurst Community Garden of Love Garden
    820 feet
  2. Playground 152 CLII Playground
    850 feet
  3. Frederick Douglass Boulevard Community Garden
    990 feet
  4. Bill Bojangles Robinson Playground
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Matthew Henson Residence Listed historic place
    790 feet
  2. West 147th-149th Streets Historic District Listed historic place
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Macombs Unit House of worship
    630 feet
  2. St Matthews Baptist Church House of worship
    1,020 feet
  3. Bethany Baptist Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Jackie Robinson Recreation Center Landmark
    720 feet
  2. Jackie Robinson Pool Swimming pool
    750 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #6 Police station
    730 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,130 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bradhurst Avenue or West 149th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.