Manhattan Avenue & West 111th Street

Manhattan Avenue and West 111th Street meet at a three-way junction in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Morningside Park is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), is about three minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 18 places to eat. About 3,600 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
4 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cathedral Pkwy (110 St)
710 feet · 3 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Manhattan Av/W 111 St · M3, M7, M116
Within a walk
13 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Manhattan Avenue & West 111th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), 710 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) B, C
    710 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. 116 St B, C
    0.3 miles
    B C
  2. 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

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 111 St, 40 feet away, for the M3, M7 and M116.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Manhattan Av/W 111 St M3, M7, M116
    40 feet
    M3 M7 M116

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …
  2. M7 …
  3. M116 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on West 111th Street.

  • 32 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 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)
Morningside Heights
Elevation
45 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 10 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 96 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and March 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Manhattan Avenue

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

North side of West 111th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 111th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1912 and 1945.

  1. The Choir School Designated landmark
    660 feet
  2. Ogilvie House (now the Deanery) Designated landmark
    740 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Frederick Douglass Memorial Decorative paving by Algernon Miller, 2011
    540 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Memorial Statue by Gabriel Koren, 2011
    540 feet
  3. Lafayette and Washington Statue by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, 1900
    750 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Bilingual Nest Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    430 feet
  2. Heaven's Tiny Tots Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet
  3. Bloomingdale Family Program Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,110 feet
Show all 5
  1. Harlem Link Charter School-Annex School
    1,160 feet
  2. Cathedral Parkway Towers Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Morningside Park
    40 feet
  2. Morningside Park Playground
    200 feet
  3. Lafayette Square
    730 feet
Show all 6
  1. Electric Ladybug Garden
    860 feet
  2. Central Park Listed historic place
    870 feet
  3. West 110th Street Playground
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Southern Baptist Church House of worship
    880 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    710 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Central Market Supermarket
    430 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Columbus Foodmarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and eight food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Manhattan Avenue or West 111th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.