Columbus Avenue & West 80th Street

Columbus Avenue and West 80th Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper West Side (Central), Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The stele “Nobel Monument” is 130 feet away, and St Vladimir Ukranian Orthodox Church is 1,020 feet away. The nearest subway, 81 St-Museum of Natural History, is about four minutes on foot, for the B and C. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places and 76 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
81 St-Museum of Natural History
1,140 feet · 4 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Columbus Av/W 80 St · M7, M11, M79 SBS
Within a walk
18 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Columbus Avenue & West 80th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 81 St-Museum of Natural History, 1,140 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 81 St-Museum of Natural History B, C
    1,140 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. 79 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1
  2. 86 St B, C
    0.5 miles
    B C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “For Want of a Nail” (2000) by MTA Arts & Design Collaborative at the 81 St-Museum of Natural History station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbus Av/W 80 St, 60 feet away, for the M7, M11 and M79 SBS.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbus Av/W 80 St M7, M11, M79 SBS · Shelter
    60 feet
    M7 M11 M79 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M7 …
  2. M11 …
  3. M79 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Columbus Avenue.

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 76 St & Columbus Ave 51 docks in all
    1,230 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 160 West 84th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10024
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6
Police precinct
20
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side (Central)
Elevation
85 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 4,600 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 1891 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 117 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2024 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 1 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Friday 7am to 4pm, 3 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 4pm to 10pm, Saturday 7am to 10pm on Columbus Avenue (east side).

West side of Columbus Avenue

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 1 sign 1 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM
  • Metered parking 1 sign 3 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-10PM SATURDAY 8AM-10PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 80th Street

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

South side of West 80th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 8AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 110707 and 114338.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 312 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1886 and 1894.

  1. The Orleans Designated landmark
    130 feet
  2. Hotel Colonial Designated landmark
    330 feet
  3. 20th Precinct Station House Garage Designated landmark
    510 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Theodore Roosevelt Park.

  1. Nobel Monument Stele by Sivert Lindblom and A. Lindberg, 2003
    130 feet
  2. The New York Times Capsule Sculpture by Santiago Calatrava, 2000
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 fire station
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Brownstone School and Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    330 feet
  2. Happy Kids, NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,020 feet
  3. M.S. 243 Center School
    1,110 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 009 Sarah Anderson School
    1,110 feet
  2. P.S. 087 William Sherman School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bethesda Terrace in Central Park Park feature
    1,190 feet
  2. Central Park Listed historic place
    1,210 feet
  3. Diana Ross Playground
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. American Museum of Natural History Museum · landmark · listed historic place
    620 feet
  2. Mt. Neboh Synagogue (Demolished) Listed historic place
    770 feet
  3. Studio Apartments Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. St. Agnes Library
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Vladimir Ukranian Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,020 feet
  2. West Side Institutional Synagogue House of worship
    1,250 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Planetarium Post Office
    1,030 feet

Fire and police

  1. 20th Precinct Police station · landmark
    710 feet
  2. Engine 74 Fire station
    1,130 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    330 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  2. Zabar's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Pioneer Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 76 places to eat and seven food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Columbus Avenue or West 80th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.