Riverside Drive & West 101st Street

Riverside Drive and West 101st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The sarcophagus “Firemen's Memorial” is 300 feet away, and the 105th Street Tot Lot is 1,080 feet away. The nearest subway, 103 St, is about five minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them listed historic places, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
103 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
430 feet
Riverside Dr/W 100 St · M5
Within a walk
12 places
3 listed historic places, 3 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 101st 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 five 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
    0.5 miles
    1 2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 100 St, 430 feet away, for the M5.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 100 St & Broadway 39 docks in all
    1,110 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2019
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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
86 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,700 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 1905 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 139 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2015 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 101st Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 101st Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 150 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1892 and 1904.

  1. Master Building Designated landmark
    630 feet

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
    300 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    10 feet
  2. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    650 feet
  3. Dinosaur Playground
    990 feet
Show all 4
  1. 105th Street Tot Lot Playground
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Masters Building Listed historic place
    640 feet
  2. Row Houses at 854-858 West End Avenue and 254 West 102nd Street Listed historic place
    810 feet
  3. Riverside-West 105th Street Historic District Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ansche Chesed Synagogue Landmark
    750 feet
  2. New York Buddhist Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,200 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and two food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 101st Street.

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