East 120th Street & Pleasant Avenue

East 120th Street and Pleasant 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 Detective Robert A. Cardona Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Mt Carmel-Holy Rosary School is 240 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 120 St/Pleasant Av, is 40 feet away for the M116. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places and ten places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
E 120 St/Pleasant Av · M116
Within a walk
18 places
5 gardens, 5 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 120 St/Pleasant Av, 40 feet away, for the M116.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M116 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 120th Street and Pleasant Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at East 116th Street & FDR Drive, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2322 1st Avenue Gas station
    970 feet
  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 two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

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
11 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Detective Robert A. Cardona Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 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 1920 and 1957.

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

Since 2014 at least 190 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Detective Robert A. Cardona Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2019 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of East 120th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 120th Street

  • No parking 10 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 Pleasant Avenue

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

West side of Pleasant Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 gardens
  • 5 schools
  • 3 parks
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Mt Carmel-Holy Rosary School
    240 feet
  2. Village Academy Charter High School
    450 feet
  3. P.S. 206 Jose Celso Barbosa School
    560 feet
Show all 5
  1. Harlem Village Academy East Charter School
    1,040 feet
  2. River East Elementary School
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pleasant Village Community Garden
    340 feet
  2. Los Amigos Garden NYRP Garden
    610 feet
  3. East River Esplanade Park
    780 feet
Show all 8
  1. East Harlem Community Garden
    960 feet
  2. Home Depot Children's Garden
    1,080 feet
  3. El Barrio Community Garden
    1,120 feet
  4. Randall's Island Park
    1,250 feet
  5. Louis Cuvillier Park
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    730 feet
  2. ALDI Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Costco Store
    870 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. East River Plaza Shopping center
    800 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 11 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 120th Street or Pleasant 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.