Convent Avenue & West 147th Street

Convent Avenue and West 147th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Mount Zion Lutheran Church Parish House stands 440 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about two minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 41 public places, 16 of them religious buildings, and 38 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
510 feet · 2 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 147 St · M101
Within a walk
41 places
16 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Convent Avenue & West 147th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 510 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    510 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. 155 St C
    0.4 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 147 St, 530 feet away, for the M101.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 147 St M101
    530 feet
    M101

Next buses at this stop

  1. M101 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 26 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 148 St & Amsterdam Ave 23 docks in all
    630 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 800 St Nicholas Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 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.

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

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
102 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,800 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 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and September 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Convent Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Convent Avenue

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

North side of West 147th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of West 147th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 259 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1892 and 1898.

  1. Mount Zion Lutheran Church Parish House Designated landmark
    440 feet
  2. Washington Heights Baptist Church Designated landmark
    670 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 41 public places.

  • 16 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 gardens
  • 4 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Neighborhood Charter School of Harlem 2 School
    550 feet
  2. Upper Manhattan Mental Health Center Preschool
    700 feet
  3. P.S. 153 Adam Clayton Powell School
    770 feet
Show all 9
  1. Hamilton Heights School Pre-K
    770 feet
  2. The William Lynch School
    770 feet
  3. Emma Bowen Therapeutic Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    870 feet
  4. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 feet
  5. Neighborhood Charter School of Harlem School
    1,130 feet
  6. Lutheran Social Services of Metropolitan New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bandshell in Jackie Robinson Park Park feature
    900 feet
  2. Donnellan Square
    1,040 feet
  3. Mo' Pals Garden
    1,060 feet
Show all 8
  1. Serenity Gardens Garden
    1,070 feet
  2. Sugar Hill Garden
    1,110 feet
  3. Convent Garden
    1,120 feet
  4. Edgecombe Park
    1,150 feet
  5. Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary Garden
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hamilton Grange Library Landmark · listed historic place
    1,060 feet
  2. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    1,150 feet
  3. Hamilton Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 186 Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Zion Lutheran Church Landmark
    470 feet
  2. First Calvary Baptist Church House of worship
    470 feet
  3. Crucifixion Church House of worship
    590 feet
Show all 7
  1. Temple Convenant House of worship
    720 feet
  2. Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church House of worship
    770 feet
  3. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    860 feet
  4. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 420 West 145th Street Older adult center
    680 feet
  2. Hamilton Grange Post Office
    910 feet
  3. Jackie Robinson Pool Swimming pool
    940 feet
Show all 4
  1. Jackie Robinson Recreation Center
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    830 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 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 38 places to eat and 23 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Convent Avenue or West 147th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.