Harlem River Drive & East 139th Street

Harlem River Drive and East 139th Street meet at a three-way junction in East Harlem (North), Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The obelisk “369th Infantry Regiment Memorial” is 710 feet away, and Union Congregational Church is 1,030 feet away. The nearest subway, 138 St-Grand Concourse, is about eight minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, five of them playgrounds, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
138 St-Grand Concourse
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 4, 5
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
5 Av/W 138 St · M1
Within a walk
14 places
5 playgrounds, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Harlem River Drive & East 139th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 138 St-Grand Concourse, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 138 St-Grand Concourse 4, 5
    0.4 miles
    4 5

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. 135 St 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3
  2. 145 St 3
    0.5 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Day Into Night Into Day” (2021) by Amy Pryor at the 138 St-Grand Concourse station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/W 138 St, 190 feet away, for the M1.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/W 138 St M1 · Shelter
    190 feet
    M1
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M1 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 5 Ave & W 139 St 20 docks in all
    180 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10037
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 11
City Council district
9
Police precinct
25
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Harlem (North)

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • 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 1947 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at 369th Regiment Armory.

  1. 369th Infantry Regiment Memorial Obelisk, 2006
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 playgrounds
  • 4 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Global Community Charter School
    860 feet
  2. St Mark the Evangelist School
    1,090 feet
  3. Democracy Preparatory Charter School
    1,110 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 197 John B. Russwurm School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. William McCray Playground
    760 feet
  2. Howard Bennett Playground
    1,170 feet
  3. Fred Samuel Playground
    1,210 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brigadier General Charles Young Playground
    1,230 feet
  2. Abraham Lincoln Playground
    1,250 feet

Health care

  1. Harlem Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    800 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks Evangelist Church House of worship
    960 feet
  2. Union Congregational Church House of worship
    1,030 feet
  3. Rendall Memorial Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Lincolnton Post Office
    280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Harlem River Drive.

Sources: MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYC City Planning, NYPD, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, FDIC and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 3, 2026.