Riverside Drive & West 100th Street

Riverside Drive and West 100th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Riverside Park is 10 feet away, and Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, 103 St, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
103 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
160 feet
Riverside Dr/W 100 St · M5
Within a walk
8 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 listed historic places and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 100th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 103 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 103 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 96 St 1, 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    1 2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 100 St, 160 feet away, for the M5.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 100 St M5
    160 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 100 St & Broadway 39 docks in all
    890 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 204 West 101st Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10025
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
7
Police precinct
24
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley
Elevation
81 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,300 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 1903 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 155 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of West 100th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 100th Street

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 120 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1896 and 1910.

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Firemen's Memorial Sarcophagus by Attilio Piccirilli, 1913
    60 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Morningside Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    670 feet
  2. Yaldaynu Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    670 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    10 feet
  2. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    480 feet
  3. Dinosaur Playground
    720 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Masters Building Listed historic place
    910 feet
  2. Row Houses at 854-858 West End Avenue and 254 West 102nd Street Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ansche Chesed Synagogue Landmark
    670 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and one food store.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 100th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.