Broadway & West 116th Street

Broadway and West 116th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The corner is also named Barnard Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the Morningside Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Low Memorial Library stands 570 feet away, and Columbia University is 810 feet away. The nearest subway, 116 St-Columbia University, is about a minute on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places and 35 places to eat.

Safety record
15 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
116 St-Columbia University
90 feet · 1 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Broadway/W 116 St · M4, M60 SBS, M104
Within a walk
24 places
8 listed historic places, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & West 116th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 116 St-Columbia University, 90 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. 116 St-Columbia University 1
    90 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
    0.3 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Railrider's Throne” (1991) by Michelle Greene at the 116 St-Columbia University station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 116 St, 50 feet away, for the M4, M60 SBS and M104.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 116 St M4, M60 SBS, M104 · Shelter
    50 feet
    M4 M60 SBS M104
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M4 …
  2. M60 SBS …
  3. M104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 116 St & Broadway 43 docks in all
    100 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Marginal Street & Henry Hudson Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3260 Broadway Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 100 Claremont Avenue Charging for electric cars, seven Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10027
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7
Police precinct
26
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morningside Heights
Elevation
131 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Barnard Way, a co-naming enacted on February 5, 2015 (Local Law 15 of 2015).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 2,100 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 1912.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 7 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2024 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 6 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 8am to 10pm on Broadway (east side).

West side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 1 sign 4 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6PM-10PM
  • Metered parking 6 signs 6 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-10PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING SATURDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

North side of West 116th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-7PM

South side of West 116th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 110492 and 112549.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Morningside Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 51 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival. They were built between 1892 and 1966.

  1. St. Anthony Hall Designated landmark
    540 feet
  2. Low Memorial Library Designated landmark
    570 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Woman's Health Protective Association Stele by Bruno Louis Zimm, 1910
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 8 listed historic places
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 colleges
  • 1 library
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Barnard College
    570 feet
  2. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Infant, toddler and preschool care
    620 feet
  3. St Hilda's & St Hugh's School Landmark
    780 feet
Show all 7
  1. Columbia University College · listed historic place
    810 feet
  2. The Family Annex Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,060 feet
  3. Columbia Greenhouse Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,170 feet
  4. Barnard College Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    650 feet
  2. 117th Street Playground
    860 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 116th Street-Columbia University Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    20 feet
  2. Brooks and Hewitt Halls Listed historic place
    360 feet
  3. Students' Hall Listed historic place
    540 feet
Show all 10
  1. Earl Hall, Columbia University Listed historic place
    550 feet
  2. Delta Psi, Alpha Chapter Listed historic place
    630 feet
  3. Morningside Heights Library
    840 feet
  4. Columbia University Butler Library Research library
    1,120 feet
  5. Philosophy Hall Listed historic place
    1,200 feet
  6. Brinckerhoff Milbank and Fiske Halls Listed historic place
    1,290 feet
  7. Casa Italiana Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Broadway Presbyterian Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    500 feet
  2. Board Missions Methodist Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    290 feet
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. H Mart Supermarket
    0.3 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 35 places to eat and six food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Broadway or West 116th 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.