Morningside Avenue & West 115th Street

Morningside Avenue and West 115th Street meet at a three-way junction in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Morningside Park is 40 feet away, and Eglise de Notre Dame stands 640 feet away. The nearest subway, 116 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the B and C. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them playgrounds, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
116 St
990 feet · 4 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Manhattan Av/W 114 St · M3, M7, M116
Within a walk
12 places
3 playgrounds, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Morningside Avenue & West 115th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 116 St, 990 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 116 St B, C
    990 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
    0.3 miles
    B C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Manhattan Av/W 114 St, 440 feet away, for the M3, M7 and M116.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Manhattan Av/W 114 St M3, M7, M116 · Shelter
    440 feet
    M3 M7 M116
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …
  2. M7 …
  3. M116 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 59 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Frederick Douglass Blvd & W 115 St 33 docks in all
    740 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Marginal Street & Henry Hudson Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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
33 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 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 87 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 151 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

East side of Morningside Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of West 115th Street

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

South side of West 115th Street

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and five buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as French Neoclassical and French Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1909 and 1928.

  1. Scrymser Pavilion Designated landmark
    610 feet
  2. Eglise de Notre Dame Designated landmark
    640 feet
  3. Plant Pavilion Designated landmark
    670 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Morningside Park.

  1. Bear and Faun Fountain by Edgar Walter, 1914
    220 feet
  2. Lafayette and Washington Statue by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, 1900
    380 feet
  3. Carl Schurz Memorial Statue by Karl Bitter, 1913
    510 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bilingual Nest Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    690 feet
  2. Heaven's Tiny Tots Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Morningside Park
    40 feet
  2. Lafayette Square
    370 feet
  3. 116th Street Playground
    440 feet
Show all 7
  1. Morningside Park Playground
    580 feet
  2. Garden of Love Garden
    730 feet
  3. 116th Street Playground (North Area) Playground
    740 feet
  4. Luigi's Garden of Love Garden
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 252 West 116th Street Older adult center
    1,120 feet
  2. Morningside Post Office
    1,220 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Central Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Lidl Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and eight food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Morningside Avenue or West 115th 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.