Frederick Douglass Boulevard & West 114th Street

Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 114th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Harlem (South), Manhattan. The corner is also named Robertus Coleman Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Garden of Love is 500 feet away, and Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing & Visual Arts is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, 116 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the B and C. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
116 St
530 feet · 2 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
20 feet
Frederick Douglass Blvd/114 St · M10
Within a walk
24 places
6 schools, 4 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Frederick Douglass Boulevard & West 114th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 116 St, 530 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 116 St B, C
    530 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. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) B, C
    1,080 feet
    B C
  2. 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Frederick Douglass Blvd/114 St, 20 feet away, for the M10.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Frederick Douglass Blvd/114 St M10
    20 feet
    M10

Next buses at this stop

  1. M10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Frederick Douglass Boulevard.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Frederick Douglass Blvd & W 115 St 33 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Marginal Street & Henry Hudson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 123 Morningside Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 532 West 122nd Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 6 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10026
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
9
Police precinct
28
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Harlem (South)
Elevation
43 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Robertus Coleman Place, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1900 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 10 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Robertus Coleman Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2023 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Frederick Douglass Boulevard

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Frederick Douglass Boulevard

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 109858, 114163 and 114432.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1901 and 1945.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Lafayette Square.

  1. Lafayette and Washington Statue by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, 1900
    510 feet
  2. Bear and Faun Fountain by Edgar Walter, 1914
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 6 schools
  • 4 parks
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Heaven's Tiny Tots Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    180 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School
    750 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School-Harlem West School
    750 feet
Show all 8
  1. Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing & Visual Arts School · landmark
    750 feet
  2. Opportunity Charter School
    790 feet
  3. STEM Institute of Manhattan School
    790 feet
  4. Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 4 School
    790 feet
  5. Bilingual Nest Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    820 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Garden of Love Garden
    500 feet
  2. Lafayette Square
    510 feet
  3. Morningside Park
    640 feet
Show all 8
  1. Luigi's Garden of Love Garden
    690 feet
  2. Morningside Park Playground
    800 feet
  3. Electric Ladybug Garden
    1,070 feet
  4. Samuel Marx Triangle
    1,210 feet
  5. Central Park Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. West 114th Street Historic District Listed historic place
    460 feet
  2. Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library Landmark · listed historic place
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Neboh Baptist Church Listed historic place
    1,010 feet
  2. All Souls Church West Harlem House of worship
    1,240 feet
  3. First Corinthian Baptist Church House of worship
    1,240 feet
Show all 4
  1. Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 252 West 116th Street Older adult center
    630 feet
  2. Morningside Post Office
    730 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    590 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    970 feet
  2. Lidl Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  3. Central Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Frederick Douglass Boulevard or West 114th 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, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.