Fort Washington Avenue & West 173rd Street

Fort Washington Avenue and West 173rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Washington Heights (South), Manhattan. The corner is also named Guadalupe Rodriguez Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. J Hood Wright Park Playground is 140 feet away. The nearest subway, 175 St, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 28 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
175 St
380 feet · 1 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Fort Washington Av/W 173 St · M4
Within a walk
15 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Fort Washington Avenue & West 173rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 175 St, 380 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 175 St A
    380 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. A …
Downtown
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. 168 St-Washington Hts 1, A, C
    0.3 miles
    1 A C
  2. 181 St A
    0.4 miles
    A

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Fort Washington Av/W 173 St, 150 feet away, for the M4.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fort Washington Av/W 173 St M4
    150 feet
    M4

Next buses at this stop

  1. M4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Fort Washington Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fort Washington Ave & W 173 St 24 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Fort Washington Avenue, 1,300 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 4116 Broadway Gas station
    900 feet
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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
190 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Guadalupe Rodriguez Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,700 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 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 148 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Guadalupe Rodriguez Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2013 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Fort Washington Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Fort Washington Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of West 173rd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of West 173rd Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Georgian, and built between 1913 and 1914.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Plaza de las Americas.

  1. The Source Fountain by Ester Partegàs, 2015
    750 feet
  2. 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece Sculpture by Terry Fugate-Wilcox, 1974
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 park
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./I.S. 173 Fort Washington School in the Heights School
    250 feet
  2. Divino Nino 175th St 3k for All Pre-K
    600 feet
  3. Washington Heights Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care · Pre-K
    1,180 feet
  2. The Medical Center Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. J. Hood Wright Park
    50 feet
  2. J Hood Wright Park Playground
    140 feet
  3. Dog Run in J. Hood Wright Park Dog run
    780 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Plaza de las Americas Pedestrian plaza
    1,010 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. United Palace Theatre Theater or concert hall
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Broadway Temple Washington Heights United Methodist Church House of worship
    410 feet
  2. Fort Washington Presbyterian Church Landmark · listed historic place
    870 feet
  3. Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Washington Heights House of worship
    1,080 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. J Hood Wright Recreation Center
    360 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Emporium Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,140 feet
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Fort Washington Avenue or West 173rd Street.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.