Morningside Drive & West 113th Street

Morningside Drive and West 113th Street meet at a three-way junction in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Plant Pavilion, one of five Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 160 feet away, and Cathedral School is 540 feet away. The nearest subway, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cathedral Pkwy (110 St)
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
770 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 112 St · M11
Within a walk
15 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Morningside Drive & West 113th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) B, C
    0.3 miles
    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-Columbia University 1
    0.4 miles
    1
  2. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) 1
    0.4 miles
    1

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 Amsterdam Av/W 112 St, 770 feet away, for the M11.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 112 St M11
    770 feet
    M11

Next buses at this stop

  1. M11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 36 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 116 St & Amsterdam Ave 43 docks in all
    1,290 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
    1 mile
  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 five crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2021
  • Enhanced crossing, June 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10025
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7
Police precinct
26
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morningside Heights
Elevation
117 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 87 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 127 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Siberian elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2021 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Morningside Drive

  • Doctor plates only 2 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of West 113th Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 113th Street

  • Doctor plates only 4 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and 13 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were mostly built between 1901 and 1917.

  1. Plant Pavilion Designated landmark
    160 feet
  2. Scrymser Pavilion Designated landmark
    220 feet
  3. Rectory of the Eglise de Notre Dame Designated landmark
    450 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
    450 feet
  2. Lafayette and Washington Statue by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, 1900
    650 feet
  3. Carl Schurz Memorial Statue by Karl Bitter, 1913
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in the City and Dioceses of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · landmark
    510 feet
  2. Cathedral School Landmark
    540 feet
  3. Columbia Greenhouse Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    880 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bloomingdale Family Program Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Morningside Park
    50 feet
  2. Morningside Park Playground
    940 feet
  3. 116th Street Playground
    1,140 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Julia Gabriel People's Garden
    1,150 feet

Health care

  1. Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital
    910 feet
  2. Amsterdam Nursing Home Corp (1992) Nursing home or hospice
    990 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. St. Luke's Hospital Listed historic place
    670 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Notre Dame Church Landmark · listed historic place
    380 feet
  2. St John Divine Cathedral Landmark
    510 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 47 Fire station
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Central Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and one food store.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Morningside Drive or West 113th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.