Broadway & West 109th Street

Broadway and West 109th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. The corner is also named Thích Nhất Hạnh Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Manhasset Apartments stands 160 feet away, and Morningside Heights Library is 1,230 feet away. The nearest subway, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), is about a minute on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 62 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cathedral Pkwy (110 St)
250 feet · 1 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
Broadway/W 108 St · M104
Within a walk
23 places
6 religious buildings, 4 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & West 109th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), 250 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) 1
    250 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 103 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1
  2. 116 St-Columbia University 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 108 St, 200 feet away, for the M104.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 108 St M104 · Shelter
    200 feet
    M104
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 38 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cathedral Pkwy & Broadway 25 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2015

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
107 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Thích Nhất Hạnh Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 5,000 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 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 89 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Thích Nhất Hạnh Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2023 and July 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-10PM SATURDAY 10AM-10PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-10AM ALL DAYS

West side of Broadway

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

North side of West 109th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 111396, 112684 and 114555.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 84 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1898 and 1910.

  1. Manhasset Apartments Designated landmark
    160 feet
  2. Explorers Club Designated landmark
    350 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Straus Park.

  1. Isidor and Ida Straus Statue by Augustus Lukeman, 1915
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. School at Columbia University (The) School
    270 feet
  2. P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon School
    600 feet
  3. West Prep Academy School
    810 feet
Show all 6
  1. Bank Street Col of Educ College
    900 feet
  2. Bank Street College of Education School
    900 feet
  3. The Family Annex Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    490 feet
  2. Straus Park
    680 feet
  3. 110th Street Tot Lot Playground
    930 feet
Show all 5
  1. 112th Street Tot Lot Playground
    1,240 feet
  2. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 110th Street-Cathedral Parkway Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    290 feet
  2. Nicholas Roerich Museum
    700 feet
  3. 352 and 353 Riverside Drive, Townhouses At Listed historic place
    800 feet
Show all 5
  1. Schinasi House Listed historic place
    970 feet
  2. Morningside Heights Library
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ramath Orah Congregation Listed historic place
    290 feet
  2. Pentecostal Church John 8:32 House of worship
    620 feet
  3. Ascension Roman Catholic Church House of worship
    800 feet
Show all 4
  1. New York Buddhist Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 221 West 107th Street Older adult center
    940 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    120 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    130 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    630 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    230 feet
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    380 feet
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    230 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    630 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 62 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Broadway or West 109th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.