Nagle Avenue & Ellwood Street

Nagle Avenue and Ellwood Street meet at a four-way crossing in Washington Heights (North), Manhattan. The corner is also named Sidney Offerman Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 776 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. YM-YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood is 220 feet away. The nearest subway, Dyckman St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them schools, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Dyckman St
1,080 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
910 feet
Broadway/W 196 St · Bx7, M100
Within a walk
17 places
5 schools, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nagle Avenue & Ellwood Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Dyckman St, 1,080 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dyckman St 1
    1,080 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

The Bronx
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. 190 St A
    0.3 miles
    A
  2. 191 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Birds in Flight-Moon View” (1991) by Wopo Holup at the Dyckman St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 196 St, 910 feet away, for the Bx7 and M100.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 196 St Bx7, M100
    910 feet
    Bx7 M100

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …
  2. M100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Nagle Ave & Ellwood St 21 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & Henry Hudson Parkway at Staff Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 265 West 204th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 776 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 920th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 370 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10040
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (North)
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Sidney Offerman Way, a co-naming enacted on February 25, 2016 (Local Law 23 of 2016).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 4,000 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 1923 and 1940.

Since 2014 at least 164 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sidney Offerman Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 52 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and May 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Ellwood Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Ellwood Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Nagle Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Nagle Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 109852.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 2 park features
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Children's Aid Society Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    150 feet
  2. P.S. 152 Dyckman Valley School
    330 feet
  3. Professor Juan Bosch Public School
    420 feet
Show all 7
  1. City College Magnet School of the Arts School
    700 feet
  2. Middle School 322 School
    700 feet
  3. School in the Square HS School
    1,060 feet
  4. New York Child Resource Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Tryon Park Listed historic place
    910 feet
  2. Bennett Lawn in Fort Tryon Park Park feature
    920 feet
  3. Highbridge Park
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. Gazebo in Fort Tryon Park Park feature
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Substation #17 (IRT) Listed historic place
    790 feet
  2. Dyckman Street Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    1,040 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. YM-YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood Recreation center · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    220 feet
  2. Older adult center at 54 Nagle Avenue Older adult center
    410 feet
  3. Fort George Post Office
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    50 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Dan's Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Ellwood Street or Nagle Avenue.

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