Central Park West & West 101st Street

Central Park West and West 101st Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan, at the edge of Central Park. The corner is also named Corine Pettey Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The Pool in Central Park is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, 103 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the B and C. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places and two places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
103 St
620 feet · 2 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
160 feet
Central Park West/W 100 St · M10
Within a walk
11 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 park features and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Central Park West & West 101st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 103 St, 620 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 103 St B, C
    620 feet
    B C

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. C …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. 96 St B, C
    1,060 feet
    B C
  2. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) B, C
    0.4 miles
    B C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Central Park West/W 100 St, 160 feet away, for the M10.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Central Park West/W 100 St M10
    160 feet
    M10

Next buses at this stop

  1. M10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Central Park West.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Central Park W & W 103 St 40 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 4 West 93rd Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10025
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6 and 7 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
22 and 24 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley; the corner is on the edge of the Central Park area
Elevation
85 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Corine Pettey Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 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 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2020 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Central Park West

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of West 101st Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 101st Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Park West Montessori Infant, toddler and preschool care · Pre-K
    670 feet
  2. Open Door Associates Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Pool in Central Park Park feature
    30 feet
  2. Central Park Listed historic place
    50 feet
  3. Tarr Family Playground
    410 feet
Show all 6
  1. West 104th Street Garden
    740 feet
  2. North Meadow in Central Park Park feature
    780 feet
  3. Rudin Family Playground
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. New York Cancer Hospital Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    480 feet
  2. Columbus Foodmarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Central Park West or West 101st Street.

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