Riverside Drive & Tiemann Place

Riverside Drive and Tiemann Place meet at a three-way junction in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The corner stands inside Riverside Park. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. Claremont (Dolphin) Playground is 360 feet away, and the urn “Amiable Child Memorial” is 660 feet away. The nearest subway, 125 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them parks, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
125 St
870 feet · 3 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Riverside Dr/Tiemann Pl · M5
Within a walk
10 places
3 parks, 2 listed historic places and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & Tiemann Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 125 St, 870 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. 125 St 1
    870 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “River to River” (1991) by Wopo Holup at the 125 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/Tiemann Pl, 100 feet away, for the M5.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/Tiemann Pl M5
    100 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 12 Ave & W 125 St 39 docks in all
    900 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Marginal Street & Henry Hudson Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 3260 Broadway Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 100 Claremont Avenue Charging for electric cars, seven Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10024
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7
Police precinct
26
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morningside Heights

Homes

About 1,800 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 1925 and 1964.

Trees

NYC Parks records 117 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 84 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 38 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 12 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Tiemann Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Tiemann Place

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Amiable Child Memorial Urn, 1967
    660 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 historic site
  • 1 park feature
  • 2 other places

This corner stands inside Riverside Park.

Schools and child care

  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    470 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    surrounds this corner
  2. Claremont (Dolphin) Playground
    360 feet
  3. West Harlem Piers Park
    950 feet
Show all 5
  1. Cherry Walk in Riverside Park Park feature
    1,000 feet
  2. Sakura Park
    1,160 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Manhattanville Public space
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Grant National Memorial Historic site · listed historic place
    1,060 feet
  2. IRT Broadway Line Viaduct Listed historic place
    1,190 feet
  3. International House Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,260 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,120 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and three food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or Tiemann Place.

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