Convent Avenue & West 152nd Street

Convent Avenue and West 152nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Northwest Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. St John Baptist Church is 160 feet away. The nearest subway, 155 St, is about three minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 38 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
155 St
850 feet · 3 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 151 St · M3
Within a walk
38 places
14 religious buildings, 6 gardens and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Convent Avenue & West 152nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 155 St, 850 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 155 St C
    850 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. C …
Downtown
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    1,230 feet
    A B C D
  2. 155 St B, D
    0.5 miles
    B D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 151 St, 220 feet away, for the M3.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 151 St M3
    220 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Convent Ave & W 151 St 24 docks in all
    270 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 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
30
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,200 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 1906 and 1926.

Since 2014 at least 39 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 108 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 4 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and February 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Convent Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Convent Avenue

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

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and 157 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts and Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1893 and 1906.

  1. Wilson Major Morris Community Center Designated landmark
    220 feet
  2. William McKinley Masonic Temple (now Prince Hall Masonic Temple) Designated landmark
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 public places.

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 6 gardens
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 4 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    720 feet
  2. Broadway Housing Communities Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet
  3. P.S./I.S. 210 - Twenty-First Century Academy for Community Leadership School
    790 feet
Show all 5
  1. New Heights Academy Charter School
    980 feet
  2. P.S. 028 Wright Brothers School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Convent Garden
    100 feet
  2. William A. Harris Garden
    370 feet
  3. Carmansville Playground
    470 feet
Show all 13
  1. Sugar Hill Hope Garden
    400 feet
  2. Donnellan Square
    610 feet
  3. Edgecombe Park
    960 feet
  4. Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary Garden
    960 feet
  5. Highbridge Park
    1,000 feet
  6. Jackie Robinson Park
    1,000 feet
  7. Wright Brothers Playground
    1,080 feet
  8. Sugar Hill Garden
    1,090 feet
  9. Lucille McClarey Wicked Friendship Garden
    1,100 feet
  10. Playground 149 CIL Playground
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    590 feet
  2. Bailey House Listed historic place
    770 feet
  3. 32nd Police Precinct Garage Listed historic place
    770 feet
Show all 5
  1. Hooper Fountain Monument or memorial
    1,050 feet
  2. John James Audubon Houses Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    160 feet
  2. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    470 feet
  3. Crucifixion Church House of worship
    770 feet
Show all 10
  1. St Luke AME Church House of worship
    790 feet
  2. Congregational Church of God House of worship
    810 feet
  3. St Catherine Genoa Church House of worship
    860 feet
  4. Temple Convenant House of worship
    910 feet
  5. Russian Holy Fathers Church House of worship
    1,130 feet
  6. Bethel Holy Church of Mount Sinai House of worship
    1,130 feet
  7. First Calvary Baptist Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Fire and police

  1. 30th Precinct Police station
    510 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,180 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Convent Avenue or West 152nd Street.

Sources: 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 Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.