Manhattan Avenue & Morningside Avenue

Manhattan Avenue and Morningside Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Harlem (South), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Morningside Park is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, 116 St, is about five minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, three of them schools, and 13 places to eat. About 3,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1900 and 1920, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
116 St
1,230 feet · 5 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Manhattan Av/W 113 St · M3, M7, M116
Within a walk
14 places
3 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Manhattan Avenue & Morningside Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 116 St, 1,230 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 116 St B, C
    1,230 feet
    B C

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. C …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) B, C
    1,230 feet
    B C
  2. 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza 2, 3
    0.5 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Manhattan Av/W 113 St, 120 feet away, for the M3, M7 and M116.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Manhattan Av/W 113 St M3, M7, M116
    120 feet
    M3 M7 M116

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …
  2. M7 …
  3. M116 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Frederick Douglass Blvd & W 112 St 37 docks in all
    790 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Marginal Street & Henry Hudson Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 123 Morningside Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 532 West 122nd Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10026
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
7 and 9 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
26 and 28 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Harlem (South)
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,000 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 1900 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 97 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 95 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 57 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2020 and June 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Manhattan Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Manhattan Avenue

  • Farmers market 4 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY SATURDAY 6AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Morningside Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Morningside Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 113th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as French Renaissance Revival. They were built between 1904 and 1945.

  1. The Choir School Designated landmark
    800 feet
  2. Plant Pavilion Designated landmark
    800 feet
  3. Scrymser Pavilion Designated landmark
    820 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Lafayette Square.

  1. Lafayette and Washington Statue by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, 1900
    230 feet
  2. Bear and Faun Fountain by Edgar Walter, 1914
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bilingual Nest Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    100 feet
  2. Heaven's Tiny Tots Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
  3. Opportunity Charter School
    990 feet
Show all 5
  1. STEM Institute of Manhattan School
    990 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 4 School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Morningside Park
    50 feet
  2. Morningside Park Playground
    90 feet
  3. Lafayette Square
    210 feet
Show all 6
  1. Garden of Love Garden
    960 feet
  2. 116th Street Playground
    1,030 feet
  3. Electric Ladybug Garden
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. West 114th Street Historic District Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    710 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Central Market Supermarket
    950 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Lidl Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Manhattan Avenue, Morningside Avenue or West 113th Street.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.