Central Park West & West 84th Street

Central Park West and West 84th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side (Central), Manhattan, at the edge of Central Park. The corner is also named Elie Wiesel Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Toll Family Playground is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the B and C.

Safety record
2 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
530 feet · 2 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Central Park West/W 84 St · M10
Within a walk
17 places
3 park features, 3 playgrounds and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Central Park West & West 84th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 530 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 86 St B, C
    530 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. 81 St-Museum of Natural History B, C
    790 feet
    B C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Parkside Portals” (2018) by Joyce Kozloff at the 86 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Central Park West/W 84 St, 50 feet away, for the M10.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Central Park West/W 84 St M10
    50 feet
    M10

Next buses at this stop

  1. M10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Central Park W & W 85 St 38 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 200 Central Park West Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10024
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6
Police precinct
20 and 22 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side (Central); the corner is on the edge of the Central Park area
Elevation
107 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Elie Wiesel Way, a co-naming enacted on March 18, 2017 (Local Law 45 of 2017).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,700 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 1890 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Central Park West

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of West 84th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of West 84th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 215 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Queen Anne, and mostly built between 1886 and 1907.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Rodeph Sholom K.J. Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    190 feet
  2. Rodeph Sholom School Landmark
    310 feet
  3. M.S. 243 Center School
    1,100 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 009 Sarah Anderson School
    1,100 feet
  2. Bard Grad Ctr for Decorative Arts College
    1,190 feet
  3. All My Children Day Care and Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    50 feet
  2. Toll Family Playground
    110 feet
  3. Ross Pinetum in Central Park Park feature
    300 feet
Show all 7
  1. Summit Rock in Central Park Park feature
    330 feet
  2. Abraham and Joseph Spector Playground
    630 feet
  3. Diana Ross Playground
    640 feet
  4. Bethesda Terrace in Central Park Park feature
    850 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. American Museum of Natural History Museum · listed historic place
    570 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Rodeph Sholom Congregation Landmark
    350 feet
  2. St Matthew St Timothy Church Landmark
    400 feet
  3. Society for the Advancement of Judaism Landmark
    720 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 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 Central Park West or West 84th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.