Broadway & Arden Street

Broadway and Arden Street meet at a three-way junction in Washington Heights (North), Manhattan. The corner is also named Dominique Alexander Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Fort Tryon Park is 60 feet away. The nearest subway, Dyckman St, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Dyckman St
410 feet · 2 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
Broadway/Riverside Dr · Bx7, M100
Within a walk
16 places
4 religious buildings, 3 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & Arden Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Dyckman St, 410 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dyckman St A
    410 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Dyckman St 1
    0.4 miles
    1
  2. Inwood-207 St A
    0.5 miles
    A

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Riverside Dr, 290 feet away, for the Bx7 and M100.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Riverside Dr Bx7, M100
    290 feet
    Bx7 M100

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …
  2. M100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 46 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & Broadway 24 docks in all
    420 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & Henry Hudson Parkway at Staff Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 242 Dyckman Street Gas station
    1,110 feet
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 8 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 December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2026
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10040
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (North)
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dominique Alexander Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2024 (Local Law 41 of 2024).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is 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 1920 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 39 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 117 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dominique Alexander Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2013 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Arden Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Arden Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8AM-9:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 112831.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1934 and 1939.

  1. The Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Designated landmark
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 parks
  • 2 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School Elementary School
    500 feet
  2. School in the Square HS School
    970 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Tryon Park Listed historic place
    60 feet
  2. Anne Loftus Playground
    80 feet
  3. Anne Loftus Overlook in Fort Tryon Park Park feature
    460 feet
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  1. Lt. Wm. Tighe Triangle
    600 feet
  2. RING - Riverside Inwood Neighborhood Garden
    600 feet
  3. Dongan Lawn in Fort Tryon Park Park feature
    810 feet
  4. Payson Playground
    1,200 feet
  5. Inwood Hill Park
    1,200 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Quisqueya Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    730 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Inwood Library–joseph and Sheila Rosenblatt Building Library
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Queen Martyrs Church House of worship
    390 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    580 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    760 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    850 feet
  2. Dan's Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Arden Street or Broadway.

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.