Convent Avenue & West 143rd Street

Convent Avenue and West 143rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner is also named Cecil Corbin-Mark Way by local law. It lies inside the Hamilton Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Our Lady Lourdes Church is 320 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the A, B, C and D. Within a five-minute walk are 35 public places and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
970 feet · 4 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
570 feet
W 145 St/Convent Av · Bx19
Within a walk
35 places
15 religious buildings, 4 listed historic places and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Convent Avenue & West 143rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 970 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    970 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. 145 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1
  2. 135 St B, C
    0.4 miles
    B C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 145 St/Convent Av, 570 feet away, for the Bx19.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 145 St/Convent Av Bx19
    570 feet
    Bx19

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx19 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 145 St & Amsterdam Ave 24 docks in all
    940 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. 800 St Nicholas Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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.

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
30
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill
Elevation
117 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: Cecil Corbin-Mark Way (Local Law 14 of 2021, enacted on January 17, 2021) and W. Haywood Burns Corner (Local Law 34 of 2000, enacted on June 20, 2000).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,400 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 1900 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 99 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

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 July 2019 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Convent Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of West 143rd Street

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

South side of West 143rd Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Hamilton Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 286 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1892 and 1900.

  1. Convent of Our Lady of Lourdes Church Convent Designated landmark
    260 feet
  2. Washington Heights Baptist Church Designated landmark
    450 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Our Lady of Lourdes School Landmark
    330 feet
  2. Neighborhood Charter School of Harlem School
    670 feet
  3. Neighborhood Charter School of Harlem 2 School
    700 feet
Show all 7
  1. High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering at City College School
    920 feet
  2. Upper Manhattan Mental Health Center Preschool
    980 feet
  3. Emma Bowen Therapeutic Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,090 feet
  4. Lutheran Social Services of Metropolitan New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Johnny Hartman Square
    490 feet
  2. Hope Steven Garden
    690 feet
  3. St. Nicholas Park
    790 feet
Show all 6
  1. Frank White Memorial Garden
    850 feet
  2. Alexander Hamilton Playground
    1,180 feet
  3. Arlington "Ollie" Edinboro Playground
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Johnny Hartman Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    600 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hamilton Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    90 feet
  2. Hamilton Grange National Memorial Listed historic place
    930 feet
  3. Ivey Delph Apartments Listed historic place
    1,000 feet
Show all 5
  1. College of the City of New York Listed historic place
    1,060 feet
  2. Hamilton Grange Library Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Lourdes Church Landmark · listed historic place
    320 feet
  2. Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church House of worship
    330 feet
  3. St Lukes Episcopal Church Landmark
    470 feet
Show all 6
  1. Mount Zion Lutheran Church Landmark
    630 feet
  2. St James Presbyterian Church House of worship
    790 feet
  3. St Stephen African Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Convent Avenue or West 143rd Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, 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.