Riverside Drive & Cathedral Parkway

Riverside Drive and Cathedral Parkway (south) meet at a four-way crossing in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Morningside Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. It is 260 feet to the 110th Street Tot Lot. The nearest subway, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), is about two minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 38 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cathedral Pkwy (110 St)
430 feet · 2 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
Broadway/Cathedral Pkwy · M104
Within a walk
18 places
6 religious buildings, 3 listed historic places and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & Cathedral Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), 430 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) 1
    430 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 116 St-Columbia University 1
    0.4 miles
    1
  2. 103 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Cathedral Pkwy, 420 feet away, for the M104.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Cathedral Pkwy M104
    420 feet
    M104

Next buses at this stop

  1. M104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Cathedral Parkway.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cathedral Pkwy & Broadway 25 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 100 Claremont Avenue Charging for electric cars, seven Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2015

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10025
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7
Police precinct
24 and 26 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morningside Heights
Elevation
107 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 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 1907 and 1923.

Trees

NYC Parks records 167 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cathedral Parkway

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cathedral Parkway

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Morningside Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 65 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1898 and 1909.

  1. Manhasset Apartments Designated landmark
    440 feet
  2. Explorers Club Designated landmark
    720 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Riverside Park.

  1. Louis Kossuth Monument Statue by János Horvay, 1928
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 college
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. School at Columbia University (The) School
    670 feet
  2. Bank Street Col of Educ College
    720 feet
  3. Bank Street College of Education School
    720 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    30 feet
  2. 110th Street Tot Lot Playground
    260 feet
  3. 112th Street Tot Lot Playground
    570 feet
Show all 4
  1. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    1,040 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 110th Street-Cathedral Parkway Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. 352 and 353 Riverside Drive, Townhouses At Listed historic place
    680 feet
  3. Nicholas Roerich Museum
    750 feet
Show all 4
  1. Schinasi House Listed historic place
    780 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ramath Orah Congregation Listed historic place
    650 feet
  2. Pentecostal Church John 8:32 House of worship
    1,020 feet
  3. New York Buddhist Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    640 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    650 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    750 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    540 feet
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    550 feet
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    390 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    800 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cathedral Parkway or Riverside Drive.

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