Broadway & West 120th Street

Broadway and West 120th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 4,522 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Corpus Christi Church is 430 feet away. The nearest subway, 116 St-Columbia University, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, six of them colleges, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
116 St-Columbia University
970 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Broadway/W 120 St · M4, M60 SBS, M104
Within a walk
25 places
6 colleges, 6 listed historic places and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & West 120th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 116 St-Columbia University, 970 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. 116 St-Columbia University 1
    970 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 125 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1
  2. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) 1
    0.5 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 120 St, 70 feet away, for the M4, M60 SBS and M104.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 120 St M4, M60 SBS, M104
    70 feet
    M4 M60 SBS M104

Next buses at this stop

  1. M4 …
  2. M60 SBS …
  3. M104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 120 St & Claremont Ave 39 docks in all
    410 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Marginal Street & Henry Hudson Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3260 Broadway Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 100 Claremont Avenue Charging for electric cars, seven Level 2 chargers
    750 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 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

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 4,522 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 180th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,884 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Southbound on Broadway2,6201,086
Northbound on Broadway1,902798
Total4,5221,884

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
116 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,800 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 1907 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 92 signs on these blocks
  • 24 different rules
  • 13 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2025 and September 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 6 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 8am to 10pm on West 120th Street (both sides).

East side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 1 sign 6 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 1PM-10PM
  • Metered parking 10 signs 6 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-10PM
  • Farmers market 4 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY THURSDAY SUNDAY 6AM-6PM
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 6AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-1PM

West side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 1 sign 4 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6PM-10PM
  • Metered parking 9 signs 6 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-10PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING SATURDAY 8:30AM-9AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 110492, 112535, 112549 and 114056.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 15 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as English Perpendicular Gothic and French Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1908 and 1911.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 6 colleges
  • 6 listed historic places
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Barnard College Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    140 feet
  2. Union Theological Seminary College · landmark · listed historic place
    370 feet
  3. Teachers College - Columbia Univ College
    530 feet
Show all 11
  1. Kipp Beyond Charter School
    540 feet
  2. Teachers College Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    620 feet
  3. The Riverside Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    760 feet
  4. Jewish Theological Semnry of America College
    830 feet
  5. Manhattan School of Music College
    850 feet
  6. Barnard College
    910 feet
  7. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Infant, toddler and preschool care
    1,060 feet
  8. Columbia University College · listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    650 feet
  2. Sakura Park
    910 feet
  3. 117th Street Playground
    1,120 feet
Show all 5
  1. Sakura Playground
    1,120 feet
  2. Gatehouse Garden
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brinckerhoff Milbank and Fiske Halls Listed historic place
    320 feet
  2. Pupin Physics Laboratories, Columbia University Listed historic place
    320 feet
  3. Earl Hall, Columbia University Listed historic place
    780 feet
Show all 6
  1. Students' Hall Listed historic place
    870 feet
  2. 116th Street-Columbia University Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    1,070 feet
  3. Brooks and Hewitt Halls Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Corpus Christi Church House of worship
    430 feet
  2. Board Missions Methodist Church House of worship
    480 feet
  3. Riverside Church Landmark · listed historic place
    760 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and four 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 120th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.