Convent Avenue & Morningside Avenue

Convent Avenue and Morningside Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Manhattanville-West Harlem, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Teachers College Community School is 140 feet away, and Playground One Twenty Five CXXV is 880 feet away. The nearest subway, 125 St, is about two minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 35 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
125 St
490 feet · 2 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Morningside Av/W 125 St · M104
Within a walk
35 places
10 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Convent Avenue & Morningside Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 125 St, 490 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 125 St A, B, C, D
    490 feet
    A B C D

Next trains at this station

Uptown
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. B …
  3. C …
  4. D …
Downtown
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. B …
  3. C …
  4. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 125 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1
  2. 135 St B, C
    0.5 miles
    B C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Morningside Av/W 125 St, 530 feet away, for the M104.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Morningside Av/W 125 St M104
    530 feet
    M104

Next buses at this stop

  1. M104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 129 St & Convent Ave 30 docks in all
    650 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Marginal Street & Henry Hudson Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 123 Morningside Avenue Gas station
    860 feet
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10027
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7 and 9 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
26
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Manhattanville-West Harlem
Elevation
38 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 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 1901 and 1926.

Since 2014 at least 125 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Convent Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Convent Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Morningside Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Morningside Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 127th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 127th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Rundbogenstil, and built in 1860.

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Harlem Hybrid Sculpture by Richard Howard Hunt, 1976
    600 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 4 parks
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 4 schools
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Teachers College Community School
    140 feet
  2. Visions of Success I Trade or language school
    830 feet
  3. P.S. 129 John H. Finley School
    1,150 feet
Show all 5
  1. School of Earth Exploration and Discovery Harlem (Seed Harlem) School
    1,150 feet
  2. Sisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Nicholas Park
    560 feet
  2. Roosevelt Triangle
    600 feet
  3. St. Nicholas Miracle Garden
    610 feet
Show all 13
  1. William B. Washington Memorial Garden
    750 feet
  2. St Nicholas Park Playground
    860 feet
  3. Playground One Twenty Five CXXV Playground
    880 feet
  4. Clayton Williams Community Garden
    880 feet
  5. Sheltering Arms Playground
    980 feet
  6. CEP Community Garden
    1,040 feet
  7. Morningside Park
    1,140 feet
  8. Playground 123 Playground
    1,230 feet
  9. Hancock Park
    1,260 feet
  10. Harlem Grows P.S. 125 Community Garden
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. St Marys Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public School 157 Listed historic place
    520 feet
  2. Brigadier General Winfield Scott Hancock Monument Monument or memorial
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Tabernaculo de la Fe House of worship
    260 feet
  2. St Joseph of the Holy Family Church Landmark
    440 feet
  3. Greater Zion Hill Baptist Church House of worship
    850 feet
Show all 7
  1. Antioch Baptist Church House of worship
    1,080 feet
  2. Trinity AME Church House of worship
    1,250 feet
  3. Annunciation RC Church House of worship
    1,280 feet
  4. Manhattan Baptist Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Manhattanville Post Office
    540 feet
  2. NYC Business Solutions Upper Manhattan Center Career or business center
    730 feet
  3. Morningside Field House Recreation center
    1,300 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 37/Ladder 40 Fire station
    900 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    960 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,120 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Convent Avenue, Morningside Avenue or West 127th Street.

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