Hillside Avenue & Ellwood Street

Hillside Avenue and Ellwood Street meet at a three-way junction in Washington Heights (North), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. Fort George Post Office is 1,080 feet away, and City College Magnet School of the Arts is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Dyckman St, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them schools, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Dyckman St
1,090 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Dyckman St/Nagle Av · M100
Within a walk
12 places
4 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hillside Avenue & Ellwood Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Dyckman St, 1,090 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dyckman St 1
    1,090 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

The Bronx
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. 190 St A
    0.3 miles
    A
  2. 191 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Birds in Flight-Moon View” (1991) by Wopo Holup at the Dyckman St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Dyckman St/Nagle Av, 0.3 miles away, for the M100.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dyckman St/Nagle Av M100
    0.3 miles
    M100

Next buses at this stop

  1. M100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Nagle Ave & Ellwood St 21 docks in all
    510 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & Henry Hudson Parkway at Staff Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 265 West 204th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported ten crashes at this corner, the median for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10040
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (North)
Elevation
47 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,200 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 1925 and 1961.

Since 2014 at least 164 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2013 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Ellwood Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Ellwood Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Hillside Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Professor Juan Bosch Public School
    290 feet
  2. P.S. 152 Dyckman Valley School
    490 feet
  3. The Children's Aid Society Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
Show all 5
  1. City College Magnet School of the Arts School
    1,200 feet
  2. Middle School 322 School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Tryon Park Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Substation #17 (IRT) Listed historic place
    570 feet
  2. Dyckman Street Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    820 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. YM-YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood Recreation center · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    680 feet
  2. Older adult center at 54 Nagle Avenue Older adult center
    910 feet
  3. Fort George Post Office
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    550 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Dan's Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change 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 Ellwood Street or Hillside Avenue.

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