Park Terrace East & West 217th Street

Park Terrace East and West 217th Street meet at a three-way junction in Inwood, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Park Terrace West-West 217th Street Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Amber Charter School Inwood is 720 feet away. The nearest subway, 215 St, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
215 St
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
640 feet
Broadway/W 218 St · Bx7, Bx20
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 2 park features and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Terrace East & West 217th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 215 St, 1,150 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 215 St 1
    1,150 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Inwood-207 St A
    0.3 miles
    A
  2. Marble Hill-225 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 218 St, 640 feet away, for the Bx7 and Bx20.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 218 St Bx7, Bx20
    640 feet
    Bx7 Bx20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …
  2. Bx20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 218 St & Broadway 27 docks in all
    530 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, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 5080 Broadway Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10034
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Inwood
Elevation
67 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,100 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 1926 and 1939.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the blackgum.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2013 and March 2015, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Park Terrace East

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of West 217th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 217th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Park Terrace West-West 217th Street Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 27 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Tudor Revival, and mostly built between 1923 and 1934.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 park features
  • 1 park
  • 1 public space
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. School in the Square Ecc School
    570 feet
  2. International Resource for Parenting Trade or language school
    720 feet
  3. Amber Charter School Inwood School
    720 feet
Show all 5
  1. Zeta Charter School - Inwood School
    1,230 feet
  2. Zeta Charter Schools - Inwood School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Isham Park
    670 feet
  2. 9 11 Memorial Rock in Isham Park Park feature
    860 feet
  3. Boulders South Lawn in Isham Park Park feature
    1,200 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Muscota Marsh Public space
    340 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    190 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and six food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Park Terrace East or West 217th 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.