East 120th Street & Paladino Avenue

East 120th Street and Paladino Avenue meet at a three-way junction in East Harlem (North), Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's Wagner development. The corner is also named Police Officer Randolph Holder Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. P.S. 206 Jose Celso Barbosa is 140 feet away, and Village Academy Charter High School is 900 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 120 St/Pleasant Av, is 420 feet away for the M116. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places and three places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Harlem River Drive
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
E 120 St/Pleasant Av · M116
Within a walk
13 places
3 parks, 3 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 120th Street & Paladino Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 120 St/Pleasant Av, 420 feet away, for the M116.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 120 St/Pleasant Av M116
    420 feet
    M116

Next buses at this stop

  1. M116 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 120th Street.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pleasant Ave & E 120 St 21 docks in all
    440 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive at 1st Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2322 1st Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 245 East 124th Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10035
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 11
City Council district
8
Police precinct
25
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Harlem (North)
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Police Officer Randolph Holder Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,200 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 in 1957.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Wagner development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Police Officer Randolph Holder Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 42 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 120th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 120th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Paladino Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Paladino Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 3 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 206 Jose Celso Barbosa School
    140 feet
  2. Mt Carmel-Holy Rosary School
    700 feet
  3. Village Academy Charter High School
    900 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East River Esplanade Park
    320 feet
  2. Randall's Island Park
    790 feet
  3. Pleasant Village Community Garden
    800 feet
Show all 5
  1. Los Amigos Garden NYRP Garden
    1,060 feet
  2. Louis Cuvillier Park
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Wagner Community Center
    770 feet
  2. Older adult center at 435 East 120th Street Older adult center
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  2. ALDI Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Costco Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. East River Plaza Shopping center
    940 feet

Other places

  1. Randalls Island Ferry Landing
    870 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 120th Street or Paladino Avenue.

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