Broadway & West 103rd Street

Broadway and West 103rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. The corner is also named Norman Rockwell Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Marseilles Hotel, one of three Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 160 feet away. The nearest subway, 103 St, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 61 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
103 St
70 feet · 1 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Broadway/W 103 St · M104
Within a walk
26 places
6 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & West 103rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 103 St, 70 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 103 St 1
    70 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) 1
    0.4 miles
    1
  2. 96 St 1, 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    1 2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 103 St, 140 feet away, for the M104.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 103 St M104
    140 feet
    M104

Next buses at this stop

  1. M104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 104 St & Amsterdam Ave 47 docks in all
    760 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 204 West 101st Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10025
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
7
Police precinct
24
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley
Elevation
98 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Norman Rockwell Place, a co-naming enacted on February 25, 2016 (Local Law 23 of 2016).

The streets

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

Homes

About 5,200 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 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Norman Rockwell Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of West 103rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 103rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 112572 and 112724.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 128 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1892 and 1902.

  1. Marseilles Hotel Designated landmark
    160 feet
  2. Horn & Hardart Automat-Cafeteria Designated landmark
    220 feet
  3. Alexandria House Designated landmark
    280 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Purple Circle Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care
    90 feet
  2. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    290 feet
  3. Morningside Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    950 feet
Show all 8
  1. Yaldaynu Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    950 feet
  2. Young Women's Leadership School
    1,170 feet
  3. P.S. 145, the Bloomingdale School
    1,200 feet
  4. La Escuelita Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet
  5. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bloomingdale Playground
    770 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Playground
    770 feet
  3. Straus Park
    960 feet
Show all 5
  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    990 feet
  2. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    1,070 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Row Houses at 854-858 West End Avenue and 254 West 102nd Street Listed historic place
    670 feet
  2. Association Residence Nursing Home Listed historic place
    730 feet
  3. Masters Building Listed historic place
    930 feet
Show all 4
  1. Riverside-West 105th Street Historic District Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ansche Chesed Synagogue Landmark
    950 feet
  2. West End Presbyterian Church Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
  3. St Gerasimos Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,140 feet
Show all 5
  1. St Michaels Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,190 feet
  2. Ascension Roman Catholic Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at Douglass Addition Older adult center
    650 feet
  2. YMCA Grosvenor Neighborhood House Community center
    930 feet
  3. Frederick Douglass Playground Mini Pool Swimming pool
    1,050 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    120 feet
  2. Columbus Foodmarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    100 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    190 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 61 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Broadway or West 103rd 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, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.