Edgecombe Avenue & West 163rd Street

Edgecombe Avenue and West 163rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Washington Heights (South), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Edgecome Rock Face in Highbridge Park is 130 feet away, and Capilla Evangelica Church is 1,010 feet away. The nearest subway, 163 St-Amsterdam Av, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
163 St-Amsterdam Av
980 feet · 4 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Edgecombe Av/W 162 St · M2
Within a walk
19 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Edgecombe Avenue & West 163rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 163 St-Amsterdam Av, 980 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 163 St-Amsterdam Av C
    980 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 155 St C
    0.4 miles
    C
  2. 168 St-Washington Hts 1, A, C
    0.4 miles
    1 A C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Ciguapa Antellana, me llamo sueño de la madrugada (who more sci-fi than us)” (2018) by Firelei Báez at the 163 St-Amsterdam Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Edgecombe Av/W 162 St, 190 feet away, for the M2.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Edgecombe Av/W 162 St M2
    190 feet
    M2

Next buses at this stop

  1. M2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Edgecombe Avenue.

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 163 St & Edgecombe Ave 19 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2161 Amsterdam Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10032
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
33
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (South)
Elevation
159 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 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 1904 and 1928.

Since 2014 at least 78 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2020 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Edgecombe Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO NYS DOCCS
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of West 163rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 163rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 53 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1882 and 1896.

  1. 555 Edgecombe Avenue Apartments Designated landmark
    820 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Community Math & Science Prep School
    590 feet
  2. The Mott Hall School
    590 feet
  3. Kids-Centric, Inc. Rena Day Care Cen School
    820 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Children's Aid Society Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet
  2. Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highbridge Park
    60 feet
  2. Edgecome Rock Face in Highbridge Park Park feature
    130 feet
  3. Adventure Playground
    320 feet
Show all 5
  1. Roger Morris Park
    360 feet
  2. Morris Jumel Community Garden
    600 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Morris Jumel Mansion Museum · listed historic place
    720 feet
  2. Jumel Terrace Historic District Listed historic place
    720 feet
  3. Paul Robeson Home Listed historic place
    950 feet
Show all 4
  1. Washington Heights Library
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Calvary Pentecostal Church House of worship
    720 feet
  2. Capilla Evangelica Church House of worship
    1,010 feet
  3. St Rose of Lima Church House of worship
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. AME Zion Church on the Hill House of worship
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Edgecombe Avenue or West 163rd Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.