Broadway & West 166th Street

Broadway and West 166th Street meet at a three-way junction in Washington Heights (South), Manhattan. The corner is also named Carlos Cooks Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 34 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The statue “Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial” is 280 feet away. The nearest subway, 168 St-Washington Hts, is about two minutes on foot, for the 1, A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 55 places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
34 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
168 St-Washington Hts
400 feet · 2 min on foot · 1, A, C
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Broadway/W 167 St · M5
Within a walk
17 places
6 religious buildings, 3 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & West 166th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 168 St-Washington Hts, 400 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 168 St-Washington Hts 1, A, C
    400 feet
    1 A C

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. A …
  3. C …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. A …
  3. C …

Also within a walk

  1. 163 St-Amsterdam Av C
    0.3 miles
    C
  2. 157 St 1
    0.5 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 167 St, 110 feet away, for the M5.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 167 St M5
    110 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 51 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & W 165 St 24 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Fort Washington Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2161 Amsterdam Avenue Gas station
    1,160 feet
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1,140 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 34 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10032
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
33
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (South)
Elevation
171 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Carlos Cooks Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2019 (Local Law 24 of 2019).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,200 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 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2023 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 10pm on Broadway (west side).

East side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 1PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-1PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of West 166th Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 110756, 113085 and 113243.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

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

  1. Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial Statue by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1922
    280 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 1 hospital
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Castle Bridge School
    880 feet
  2. P.S. 128 Audubon School
    880 feet
  3. Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics School
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mitchel Square
    70 feet
  2. McKenna Square
    650 feet
  3. Audubon Playground
    990 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Plaza Alianza Dominicana Pedestrian plaza
    560 feet

Health care

  1. New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Presbyterian Center Hospital
    890 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 168th Street Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    220 feet
  2. Fort Washington Avenue (22nd Corps of Engineers) Armory Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Rose of Lima Church House of worship
    880 feet
  2. Capilla Evangelica Church House of worship
    1,140 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Audubon Post Office
    720 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 55 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Broadway or West 166th Street.

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