Frederick Douglass Boulevard & West 131st Street

Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 131st Street meet at a three-way junction in Harlem (North), Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's Saint Nicholas development. The corner is also named William Atmore Byrd, Sr. Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. St. Nicholas Park is 620 feet away. The nearest subway, 125 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the A, B, C and D. Within a five-minute walk are 32 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
20 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
125 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Frederick Douglass Blvd/W 131 St · M10
Within a walk
32 places
13 religious buildings, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Frederick Douglass Boulevard & West 131st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 125 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. 125 St A, B, C, D
    0.3 miles
    A B C D

Next trains at this station

Uptown
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. B …
  3. C …
  4. D …
Downtown
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. B …
  3. C …
  4. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 135 St B, C
    0.3 miles
    B C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Frederick Douglass Blvd/W 131 St, 110 feet away, for the M10.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Frederick Douglass Blvd/W 131 St M10
    110 feet
    M10

Next buses at this stop

  1. M10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Frederick Douglass Blvd & W 129 St 27 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive southbound at Park Avenue & East 132nd Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 123 Morningside Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 20 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10027
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
9
Police precinct
32
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Harlem (North)
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

This corner is also named William Atmore Byrd, Sr. Place, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2019 (Local Law 24 of 2019).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Saint Nicholas development.

Since 2014 at least 91 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on William Atmore Byrd, Sr. Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Frederick Douglass Boulevard

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Italian Gothic Revival, and built between 1902 and 1904.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Urban Concepts of New York Round-The-Clock Nursery Pre-K
    310 feet
  2. Sequence for Cidz Pre-K
    570 feet
  3. Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy Charter School
    650 feet
Show all 10
  1. Teachers College Community School Pre-K
    900 feet
  2. Chloe Day School & Wellness Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  3. Democracy Prep Charter High School
    1,110 feet
  4. P.S. 092 Mary McLeod Bethune School
    1,110 feet
  5. St. Hope Leadership Academy Charter School
    1,110 feet
  6. Saint Nicholas Child care
    1,140 feet
  7. Utopia Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Nicholas Park
    620 feet
  2. Langston Hughes Playground
    820 feet
  3. St Nicholas Park Playground
    870 feet
Show all 6
  1. Love Garden - Saint Nicholas Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,050 feet
  2. CEP Community Garden
    1,280 feet
  3. St. Nicholas Playground South Playground
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Substation #219 (IND) Listed historic place
    840 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Pauls Baptist Church House of worship
    550 feet
  2. Shiloh Baptist Church House of worship
    800 feet
  3. St Aloysius RC Church Landmark
    830 feet
Show all 7
  1. Salem United Methodist Church Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  2. Greater Zion Hill Baptist Church House of worship
    1,090 feet
  3. St Philips Church Listed historic place
    1,200 feet
  4. Friendship Baptist Church House of worship
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Saint Nicholas Community center
    670 feet
  2. Older adult center at 210 West 131st Street Older adult center
    890 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    340 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    620 feet
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    1,130 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,090 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Frederick Douglass Boulevard or West 131st 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 Records, NYCHA, 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.