Edgecombe Avenue & St Nicholas Place

Edgecombe Avenue and St Nicholas Place meet at a four-way crossing in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Hooper Fountain is 70 feet away, and Bethany Baptist Church is 880 feet away. The nearest subway, 155 St, is about a minute on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
155 St
370 feet · 1 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Edgecombe Av/W 155 St · M2
Within a walk
29 places
7 religious buildings, 5 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Edgecombe Avenue & St Nicholas Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 155 St, 370 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 155 St B, D
    0.3 miles
    B D
  2. 145 St A, B, C, D
    0.4 miles
    A B C D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Edgecombe Av/W 155 St, 140 feet away, for the M2.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Edgecombe Av/W 155 St M2
    140 feet
    M2

Next buses at this stop

  1. M2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on St Nicholas Place.

  • 22 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Harlem River Dr & W 155 St 24 docks in all
    110 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 89 St Nicholas Place Gas station
    at this corner
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two 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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10032
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
9 and 10 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
30 and 32 and 33 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill
Elevation
107 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 87 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1893 and 1912.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Broadway Housing Communities Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    460 feet
  2. P.S. 028 Wright Brothers School
    850 feet
  3. Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highbridge Park
    120 feet
  2. Jackie Robinson Park
    170 feet
  3. Coogan's Bluff Playground
    480 feet
Show all 14
  1. Wright Brothers Playground
    620 feet
  2. Family Garden - Polo Grounds Towers (NYCHA) Garden
    640 feet
  3. Bushman Steps Park
    680 feet
  4. William A. Harris Garden
    810 feet
  5. Playground 152 CLII Playground
    840 feet
  6. John T Brush Stairway in Highbridge Park Park feature
    860 feet
  7. Sugar Hill Hope Garden
    900 feet
  8. Holcombe Rucker Park
    1,020 feet
  9. Rucker Park Playground
    1,020 feet
  10. Convent Garden
    1,100 feet
  11. Donnellan Square
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hooper Fountain Monument or memorial
    70 feet
  2. Ellington, Edward Kennedy Duke" Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
  3. John James Audubon Houses Listed historic place
    1,130 feet
Show all 4
  1. Mary McLeod Bethune Gardens Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethel Holy Church of Mount Sinai House of worship
    510 feet
  2. Bethany Baptist Church House of worship
    880 feet
  3. Congregational Church of God House of worship
    1,070 feet
Show all 5
  1. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    1,110 feet
  2. Greater File Chapel Baptist Church House of worship
    1,160 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Polo Grounds Towers Community center
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Edgecombe Avenue or St Nicholas Place.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.