Frederick Douglass Boulevard & West 151st Street

Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 151st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Harlem (North), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School is 520 feet away, and Brigadier General Charles Young Triangle is 920 feet away. The nearest subway, Harlem-148 St, is about six minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, six of them playgrounds, and six places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Harlem-148 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Frederick Douglass Blvd/W 152 St · M10
Within a walk
23 places
6 playgrounds, 3 parks and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Frederick Douglass Boulevard & West 151st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Harlem-148 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Harlem-148 St 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Downtown
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. 155 St B, D
    0.3 miles
    B D
  2. 155 St C
    0.4 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Frederick Douglass Blvd/W 152 St, 180 feet away, for the M10.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Frederick Douglass Blvd/W 152 St M10
    180 feet
    M10

Next buses at this stop

  1. M10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Macombs Pl & W 152 St 33 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 89 St Nicholas Place Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10039
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
9
Police precinct
32
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Harlem (North)
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four 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 1910 and 1936.

Since 2014 at least 87 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

West side of Frederick Douglass Boulevard

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and 30 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical. They were mostly built between 1905 and 1928.

  1. Dunbar Apartments Designated landmark
    370 feet
  2. Harlem River Houses Designated landmark
    410 feet
  3. Jackie Robinson Play Center Comfort Station Designated landmark
    640 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Bill Bojangles Robinson Playground.

  1. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Mural Mural, 1992
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 6 playgrounds
  • 3 parks
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School
    520 feet
  2. Mary Walton Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    770 feet
  3. Community Life Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    870 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Frederick Douglass Boulevard Community Garden
    280 feet
  2. Jackie Robinson Park
    350 feet
  3. Playground 152 CLII Playground
    650 feet
Show all 12
  1. Bradhurst Community Garden of Love Garden
    470 feet
  2. Playground 149 CIL Playground
    650 feet
  3. Bill Bojangles Robinson Playground
    850 feet
  4. Brigadier General Charles Young Triangle
    920 feet
  5. Frederick Johnson Playground
    990 feet
  6. Holcombe Rucker Park
    1,150 feet
  7. Rucker Park Playground
    1,150 feet
  8. Bandshell in Jackie Robinson Park Park feature
    1,240 feet
  9. Percy E. Sutton Playground
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Matthew Henson Residence Listed historic place
    630 feet
  2. Macomb's Bridge Library
    1,120 feet
  3. West 147th-149th Streets Historic District Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Matthews Baptist Church House of worship
    240 feet
  2. Bethany Baptist Church House of worship
    620 feet
  3. Jehovahs Witnesses Macombs Unit House of worship
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Colonial Park Post Office
    960 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #6 Police station
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,130 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Frederick Douglass Boulevard or West 151st 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.