Morningside Avenue & West 116th Street

Morningside Avenue and West 116th Street meet at a three-way junction in Harlem (South), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. It is 110 feet to the 116th Street Playground. The nearest subway, 116 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the B and C. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them playgrounds, and ten places to eat. About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1927, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
4 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
116 St
850 feet · 3 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
490 feet
Manhattan Av/W 116 St · M7, M116
Within a walk
10 places
3 playgrounds, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Morningside Avenue & West 116th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 116 St, 850 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 116 St B, C
    850 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
    0.4 miles
    B C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Manhattan Av/W 116 St, 490 feet away, for the M7 and M116.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Manhattan Av/W 116 St M7, M116 · Shelter
    490 feet
    M7 M116
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M7 …
  2. M116 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Morningside Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Frederick Douglass Blvd & W 115 St 33 docks in all
    1,070 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
    0.4 miles
  2. 532 West 122nd Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2018

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
33 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 2,700 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 1901 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 117 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2019 and August 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Morningside Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of West 116th Street

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

South side of West 116th Street

  • No parking 3 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. Eglise de Notre Dame Designated landmark
    660 feet
  2. Rectory of the Eglise de Notre Dame Designated landmark
    720 feet
  3. Scrymser Pavilion Designated landmark
    730 feet

Monuments and public art

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

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Bilingual Nest Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,020 feet
  2. P.S. 180 Hugo Newman School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Morningside Park
    50 feet
  2. 116th Street Playground
    110 feet
  3. 116th Street Playground (North Area) Playground
    410 feet
Show all 6
  1. Lafayette Square
    700 feet
  2. Garden of Love Garden
    790 feet
  3. Morningside Park Playground
    920 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 252 West 116th Street Older adult center
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,320 feet
  2. Lidl Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Central Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and seven food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Morningside Avenue or West 116th Street.

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