Broadway & West 215th Street

Broadway and West 215th Street meet at a three-way junction in Inwood, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Amber Charter School Inwood is 530 feet away. The nearest subway, 215 St, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them park features, and 18 places to eat. About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1939, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
215 St
400 feet · 2 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Broadway/W 215 St · Bx7, Bx20
Within a walk
11 places
3 park features, 3 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & West 215th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 215 St, 400 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 215 St 1
    400 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

The Bronx
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. Inwood-207 St A
    1,020 feet
    A
  2. 207 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 215 St, 40 feet away, for the Bx7 and Bx20.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 215 St Bx7, Bx20 · Shelter
    40 feet
    Bx7 Bx20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …
  2. Bx20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 10 Ave & W 215 St 21 docks in all
    450 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway southbound at West Fordham Road, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5080 Broadway Gas station
    570 feet
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10034
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Inwood
Elevation
32 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

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 1925 and 1939.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2013 and April 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Broadway (west side).

East side of Broadway

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of West 215th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 215th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 111283.

Landmarks and historic districts

Nineteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Tudor Revival, and mostly built between 1933 and 1934.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 park features
  • 3 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 public space
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. School in the Square Ecc School
    380 feet
  2. International Resource for Parenting Trade or language school
    530 feet
  3. Amber Charter School Inwood School
    530 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 098 Shorac Kappock School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Isham Park
    380 feet
  2. 9 11 Memorial Rock in Isham Park Park feature
    520 feet
  3. Ginko Tree & Stairs in Isham Park Park feature
    910 feet
Show all 4
  1. Boulders South Lawn in Isham Park Park feature
    940 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Muscota Marsh Public space
    910 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 207th Street Yard - Signal Service Building and Tower B (IND) Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Good Shepherd Church Broadway House of worship
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    540 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Broadway or West 215th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.