Convent Avenue & West 141st Street

Convent Avenue and West 141st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Hamilton Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. St Lukes Episcopal Church is 150 feet away, and CUNY City College is 1,310 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about six minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 35 public places, 17 of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 140 St · M101
Within a walk
35 places
17 religious buildings, 4 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Convent Avenue & West 141st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    0.3 miles
    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. 135 St B, C
    0.3 miles
    B C
  2. 137 St-City College 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 140 St, 530 feet away, for the M101.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 140 St M101
    530 feet
    M101

Next buses at this stop

  1. M101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Nicholas Terrace & Convent Ave 24 docks in all
    490 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at West 135th Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 228 West 145th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10031
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7 and 9 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
26 and 30 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill
Elevation
111 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,500 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 1902 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 95 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and October 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Convent Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Convent Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of West 141st Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of West 141st Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 9AM-6PM ALL DAYS

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Hamilton Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 210 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1894 and 1902.

  1. The Grange Designated landmark
    340 feet
  2. Goethals Hall (Technology Building) Designated landmark
    350 feet
  3. Convent of Our Lady of Lourdes Church Convent Designated landmark
    380 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 17 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 gardens
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering at City College School
    400 feet
  2. Our Lady of Lourdes School
    850 feet
  3. Neighborhood Charter School of Harlem School
    1,190 feet
Show all 5
  1. Neighborhood Charter School of Harlem 2 School
    1,220 feet
  2. CUNY City College
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Nicholas Park
    270 feet
  2. Hope Steven Garden
    750 feet
  3. Arlington "Ollie" Edinboro Playground
    770 feet
Show all 7
  1. Alexander Hamilton Playground
    820 feet
  2. Johnny Hartman Square
    1,010 feet
  3. Frank White Memorial Garden
    1,210 feet
  4. Jacob H. Schiff Playground
    1,270 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Johnny Hartman Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hamilton Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    440 feet
  2. Ivey Delph Apartments Listed historic place
    480 feet
  3. College of the City of New York Listed historic place
    530 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Lukes Episcopal Church Landmark
    150 feet
  2. Our Lady Lourdes Church Landmark · listed historic place
    400 feet
  3. St James Presbyterian Church House of worship
    500 feet
Show all 6
  1. Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church House of worship
    850 feet
  2. Mount Zion Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,150 feet
  3. Mount Calvary Methodist Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 420 West 145th Street Older adult center
    1,080 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 80/Ladder 23 Fire station
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  3. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Convent Avenue or West 141st 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.