Edgecombe Avenue & West 138th Street

Edgecombe Avenue and West 138th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Harlem (North), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. St Marks Methodist Church is 150 feet away. The nearest subway, 135 St, is about a minute on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
135 St
320 feet · 1 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 138 St · M3
Within a walk
23 places
10 religious buildings, 4 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Edgecombe Avenue & West 138th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 135 St, 320 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 135 St B, C
    320 feet
    B C

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. C …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    0.4 miles
    A B C D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 138 St, 280 feet away, for the M3.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 138 St M3
    280 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Nicholas Ave & W 137 St 21 docks in all
    440 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive southbound, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 228 West 145th Street Gas station
    0.5 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 five crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10030
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
9
Police precinct
32
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Harlem (North)
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 5 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 102 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

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

East side of Edgecombe Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Edgecombe Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of West 138th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 138th Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 234 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1891 and 1897.

  1. Shepard Hall (Main Building) Designated landmark
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem School
    780 feet
  2. Mott Hall High School
    780 feet
  3. P.S. 123 Mahalia Jackson School
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 5 School
    940 feet
  2. Chloe Day School & Wellness Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Nicholas Park
    220 feet
  2. Dorrance Brooks Square
    310 feet
  3. Arlington "Ollie" Edinboro Playground
    710 feet
Show all 5
  1. Dog Run in St. Nicholas Park Dog run
    780 feet
  2. James Baldwin Lawn in St. Nicholas Park Park feature
    900 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dorrence Brooks Square Historic District Listed historic place
    100 feet
  2. St. Nicholas Historic District Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
  3. Will Marion Cook House Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks Methodist Church Landmark
    150 feet
  2. Grace Congregational Church Harlem Landmark
    310 feet
  3. Mount Calvary Methodist Church Landmark
    470 feet
Show all 6
  1. New Hope SDA Church House of worship
    480 feet
  2. St James Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,060 feet
  3. Beulah Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,000 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,220 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Edgecombe Avenue or West 138th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.