Riverside Drive & Payson Avenue

Riverside Drive and Payson Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Washington Heights (North), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Fort Tryon Park is 40 feet away, and the Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art) stands 650 feet away. The nearest subway, Dyckman St, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, four of them parks, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Dyckman St
600 feet · 2 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
750 feet
Broadway/Riverside Dr · Bx7, M100
Within a walk
16 places
4 parks, 4 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & Payson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Dyckman St, 600 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dyckman St A
    600 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Dyckman St 1
    0.5 miles
    1
  2. Inwood-207 St A
    0.5 miles
    A

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Riverside Dr, 750 feet away, for the Bx7 and M100.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Riverside Dr Bx7, M100
    750 feet
    Bx7 M100

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …
  2. M100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Riverside Drive.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & Broadway 24 docks in all
    630 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, 440 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 242 Dyckman Street Gas station
    620 feet
  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 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2023

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)
Washington Heights (North)
Elevation
34 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,300 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 1920 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 82 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2013 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Payson Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Payson Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1934 and 1939.

  1. The Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Designated landmark
    650 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Tryon Park Listed historic place
    40 feet
  2. Anne Loftus Playground
    190 feet
  3. Anne Loftus Overlook in Fort Tryon Park Park feature
    250 feet
Show all 10
  1. Payson Playground
    480 feet
  2. Inwood Hill Park
    490 feet
  3. RING - Riverside Inwood Neighborhood Garden
    520 feet
  4. Lt. Wm. Tighe Triangle
    520 feet
  5. Fort Washington Park
    550 feet
  6. Overlook Below Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park Park feature
    620 feet
  7. Henry Hudson Overlook in Fort Tryon Park Park feature
    760 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Quisqueya Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    730 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Inwood Library–joseph and Sheila Rosenblatt Building Library
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Queen Martyrs Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    860 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. Dan's Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 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 Payson Avenue 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.