Park Terrace West & West 217th Street

Park Terrace West and West 217th Street meet at a three-way junction in Inwood, Manhattan. The corner is also named Joseph Kellett Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the Park Terrace West-West 217th Street Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Isham Park is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, 215 St, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them park features, and five places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
215 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
1,020 feet
Broadway/W 215 St · Bx7, Bx20
Within a walk
10 places
3 park features, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 215 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 215 St 1
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.5 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 215 St, 1,020 feet away, for the Bx7 and Bx20.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 215 St Bx7, Bx20 · Shelter
    1,020 feet
    Bx7 Bx20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …
  2. Bx20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 218 St & Broadway 27 docks in all
    920 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Major Deegan Expressway southbound at West 230th Street & Major Deegan Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5080 Broadway Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 5604 Broadway Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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
76 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Joseph Kellett Way, a co-naming enacted on December 29, 2005 (Local Law 131 of 2005).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of Park Terrace West

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 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

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 park features
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground
  • 1 public space
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Amber Charter School Inwood School
    630 feet
  2. International Resource for Parenting Trade or language school
    630 feet
  3. School in the Square Ecc School
    750 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Isham Park
    480 feet
  2. Indian Road Playground
    1,070 feet
  3. 9 11 Memorial Rock in Isham Park Park feature
    1,070 feet
Show all 6
  1. Inwood Hill Park
    1,080 feet
  2. Boulders South Lawn in Isham Park Park feature
    1,100 feet
  3. Pats Lawn in Inwood Hill Park Park feature
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Muscota Marsh Public space
    320 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    590 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and three 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 West 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.