Morningside Avenue & West 117th Street

Morningside Avenue and West 117th Street meet at a three-way junction in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The statue “Carl Schurz Memorial” is 390 feet away. The nearest subway, 116 St, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them playgrounds, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
116 St
1,140 feet · 4 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
660 feet
Manhattan Av/W 116 St · M3
Within a walk
11 places
3 playgrounds, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Morningside Avenue & West 117th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 116 St, 1,140 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 116 St B, C
    1,140 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
    0.5 miles
    B C
  2. 125 St A, B, C, D
    0.5 miles
    A B C D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Manhattan Av/W 116 St, 660 feet away, for the M3.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Manhattan Av/W 116 St M3 · Shelter
    660 feet
    M3
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 38 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Frederick Douglass Blvd & W 117 St 39 docks in all
    950 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Marginal Street & Henry Hudson Parkway, 1.1 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 seven crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, August 2016

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
32 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 94 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Morningside Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of West 117th Street

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

South side of West 117th 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

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1955 and 1956.

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Carl Schurz Memorial Statue by Karl Bitter, 1913
    390 feet
  2. Bear and Faun Fountain by Edgar Walter, 1914
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 180 Hugo Newman School
    860 feet
  2. City Seminary of NY Graduate Ctr. College
    1,190 feet
  3. Bilingual Nest Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Morningside Park
    60 feet
  2. 116th Street Playground
    100 feet
  3. 116th Street Playground (North Area) Playground
    130 feet
Show all 6
  1. Lafayette Square
    980 feet
  2. Garden of Love Garden
    1,070 feet
  3. Morningside Park Playground
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lidl Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Morningside Avenue or West 117th 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.