Morningside Drive & West 121st Street

Morningside Drive and West 121st Street meet at a three-way junction 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. Morningside Field House is 410 feet away, and Kipp Beyond Charter School is 1,170 feet away. The nearest subway, 116 St-Columbia University, is about ten minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
116 St-Columbia University
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
640 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 120 St · M60 SBS
Within a walk
10 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Morningside Drive & West 121st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 116 St-Columbia University, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. 116 St-Columbia University 1
    0.5 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Railrider's Throne” (1991) by Michelle Greene at the 116 St-Columbia University station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 120 St, 640 feet away, for the M60 SBS.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 120 St M60 SBS
    640 feet
    M60 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M60 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Morningside Dr & Amsterdam Ave 35 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Marginal Street & Henry Hudson Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 123 Morningside Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 532 West 122nd Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 October 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10027
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7
Police precinct
26
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morningside Heights
Elevation
103 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 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 1907 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 171 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Siberian elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Morningside Drive

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of West 121st Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of West 121st Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1894 and 1966.

  1. Public School 36 Designated landmark
    470 feet
  2. Croton Aqueduct, West 119th Street Gatehouse Designated landmark
    720 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 036 Margaret Douglas School
    550 feet
  2. Teachers College Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,020 feet
  3. Teachers College - Columbia Univ College
    1,110 feet
Show all 5
  1. The East Harlem Block Nursery Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet
  2. Kipp Beyond Charter School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Morningside Park
    60 feet
  2. Playground 123 Playground
    370 feet
  3. Gatehouse Garden
    970 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Corpus Christi Church House of worship
    1,110 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Morningside Field House Recreation center
    410 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Morningside Drive or West 121st 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, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.