Manhattan Avenue & West 108th Street

Manhattan Avenue and West 108th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Southern Baptist Church is 180 feet away. The nearest subway, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), is about two minutes on foot, for the B and C. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cathedral Pkwy (110 St)
650 feet · 2 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Manhattan Av/W 108 St · M7, M116
Within a walk
21 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 gardens and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Manhattan Avenue & West 108th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), 650 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) B, C
    650 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. 103 St B, C
    0.3 miles
    B C
  2. 116 St B, C
    0.5 miles
    B C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Migration” (1999) by Christopher Wynter at the Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Manhattan Av/W 108 St, 100 feet away, for the M7 and M116.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Manhattan Av/W 108 St M7, M116
    100 feet
    M7 M116

Next buses at this stop

  1. M7 …
  2. M116 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 107 St & Columbus Ave 23 docks in all
    630 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 123 Morningside Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 4 West 93rd Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 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
10025
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
7
Police precinct
24
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley
Elevation
60 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 4,300 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 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Manhattan Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Manhattan Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of West 108th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of West 108th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 33 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Queen Anne. They were mostly built between 1886 and 1887.

  1. New-York Cancer Hospital Designated landmark
    710 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Frederick Douglass Circle.

  1. Frederick Douglass Memorial Decorative paving by Algernon Miller, 2011
    690 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Memorial Statue by Gabriel Koren, 2011
    690 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Bloomingdale Family Program Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
  2. J.H.S. 054 Booker T. Washington School
    760 feet
  3. Cathedral Parkway Towers Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bilingual Nest Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,210 feet
  2. Sequence For Cidz Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    510 feet
  2. Morningside Park
    570 feet
  3. Mobilization For Change Community Garden
    610 feet
Show all 12
  1. Anibal Aviles Playground
    700 feet
  2. Morningside Park Playground
    900 feet
  3. Booker T. Washington Playground
    950 feet
  4. The Pool in Central Park Park feature
    1,030 feet
  5. The Great Hill in Central Park Park feature
    1,060 feet
  6. La Perla Community Garden
    1,190 feet
  7. La Perla Garden
    1,190 feet
  8. West 104th Street Garden
    1,210 feet
  9. West 110th Street Playground
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Southern Baptist Church House of worship
    180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Central Market Supermarket
    360 feet
  2. Columbus Foodmarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 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 or West 108th 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.