Morningside Drive & West 114th Street

Morningside Drive and West 114th Street meet at a four-way crossing 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. Scrymser Pavilion, one of five Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 120 feet away. The nearest subway, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), is about eight minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, three of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cathedral Pkwy (110 St)
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 114 St · M11
Within a walk
14 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Morningside Drive & West 114th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) B, C
    0.4 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
    0.5 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 114 St, 690 feet away, for the M11.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 114 St M11 · Shelter
    690 feet
    M11
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 49 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 116 St & Amsterdam Ave 43 docks in all
    1,020 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
    0.9 miles
  2. 532 West 122nd Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

What the city has done here

  • 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
124 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 138 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Siberian elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2022 and January 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, 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 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 114th Street

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY
  • Doctor plates only 2 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

South side of West 114th Street

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY
  • Doctor plates only 3 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and ten 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 1892 and 1914.

  1. Scrymser Pavilion Designated landmark
    120 feet
  2. Plant Pavilion Designated landmark
    200 feet
  3. Rectory of the Eglise de Notre Dame Designated landmark
    250 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
    410 feet
  2. Carl Schurz Memorial Statue by Karl Bitter, 1913
    540 feet
  3. Lafayette and Washington Statue by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, 1900
    680 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Columbia Greenhouse Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    610 feet
  2. Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in the City and Dioceses of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K · landmark
    780 feet
  3. Cathedral School Landmark
    810 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Morningside Park
    50 feet
  2. 116th Street Playground
    870 feet
  3. Morningside Park Playground
    1,210 feet

Health care

  1. Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital
    640 feet
  2. Amsterdam Nursing Home Corp (1992) Nursing home or hospice
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. St. Luke's Hospital Listed historic place
    400 feet
  2. Columbia University Butler Library Research library
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

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

Fire and police

  1. Engine 47 Fire station
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Morningside Drive or West 114th 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.