Harlem River Driveway & West 155th Street

Harlem River Driveway and West 155th Street meet at a five-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 9,805 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Highbridge Park is 90 feet away. The nearest subway, 155 St, is about a minute on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
15 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
155 St
360 feet · 1 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
W 155 St/Edgecombe Av · Bx6, M2
Within a walk
29 places
7 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Harlem River Driveway & West 155th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 155 St, 360 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 155 St C
    360 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. C …
Downtown
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. 155 St B, D
    0.3 miles
    B D
  2. 145 St A, B, C, D
    0.4 miles
    A B C D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 155 St/Edgecombe Av, 120 feet away, for the Bx6 and M2.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 155 St/Edgecombe Av Bx6, M2
    120 feet
    Bx6 M2

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx6 …
  2. M2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Macombs Dam Bridge Pedestrian Path and St Nicholas Place.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Harlem River Dr & W 155 St 24 docks in all
    80 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
    200 feet
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2015

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 9,805 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 62nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 5,204 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on West 155th Street9,7645,204
Southbound on Harlem River Driveway41–
Total9,8055,204

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10032
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
9 and 10 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
30 and 32 and 33 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 4,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 39 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2019 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Harlem River Driveway

  • No standing 8 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 155th Street

  • No standing 12 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 80 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1893 and 1912.

  1. William McKinley Masonic Temple (now Prince Hall Masonic Temple) Designated landmark
    510 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 4 parks
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Broadway Housing Communities Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    440 feet
  2. P.S. 028 Wright Brothers School
    840 feet
  3. Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Highbridge Park
    90 feet
  2. Jackie Robinson Park
    210 feet
  3. Coogan's Bluff Playground
    470 feet
Show all 14
  1. Family Garden - Polo Grounds Towers (NYCHA) Garden
    590 feet
  2. Wright Brothers Playground
    600 feet
  3. Bushman Steps Park
    670 feet
  4. William A. Harris Garden
    790 feet
  5. John T Brush Stairway in Highbridge Park Park feature
    840 feet
  6. Playground 152 CLII Playground
    880 feet
  7. Sugar Hill Hope Garden
    940 feet
  8. Holcombe Rucker Park
    980 feet
  9. Rucker Park Playground
    980 feet
  10. Convent Garden
    1,150 feet
  11. Bradhurst Community Garden of Love Garden
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hooper Fountain Monument or memorial
    80 feet
  2. Ellington, Edward Kennedy Duke" Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
  3. John James Audubon Houses Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
Show all 4
  1. Mary McLeod Bethune Gardens Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethel Holy Church of Mount Sinai House of worship
    500 feet
  2. Bethany Baptist Church House of worship
    920 feet
  3. Congregational Church of God House of worship
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. Greater File Chapel Baptist Church House of worship
    1,150 feet
  2. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Polo Grounds Towers Community center
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    950 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Harlem River Driveway, Macombs Dam Bridge Pedestrian Path, St Nicholas Place or West 155th Street.

Sources: NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.