Riverside Drive & West 103rd Street

Riverside Drive and West 103rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. The corner is also named Cynthia Doty Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Master Building stands 140 feet away, and Nicholas Roerich Museum is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, 103 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them listed historic places, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
103 St
900 feet · 3 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Riverside Dr/W 103 St · M5
Within a walk
17 places
5 listed historic places, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 103rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 103 St, 900 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. 103 St 1
    900 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 103 St, 90 feet away, for the M5.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 103 St M5
    90 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. West End Ave & W 107 St 31 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2018
  • 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
91 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Cynthia Doty Way, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,500 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 1902 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 133 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Cynthia Doty Way.

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 September 2015 and June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of West 103rd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 103rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 8AM-4PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 182 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were built between 1884 and 1963.

  1. Master Building Designated landmark
    140 feet
  2. Alexandria House Designated landmark
    660 feet
  3. Marseilles Hotel Designated landmark
    790 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Riverside Park.

  1. Firemen's Memorial Sarcophagus by Attilio Piccirilli, 1913
    810 feet
  2. General Franz Sigel Statue by Karl Bitter, 1907
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 listed historic places
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 museum
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Purple Circle Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care
    1,010 feet
  2. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    1,210 feet
  3. Morningside Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet
Show all 4
  1. Yaldaynu Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    70 feet
  2. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    140 feet
  3. 105th Street Tot Lot Playground
    550 feet
Show all 4
  1. Dog Run W 105 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    810 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Masters Building Listed historic place
    110 feet
  2. Riverside-West 105th Street Historic District Listed historic place
    750 feet
  3. Row Houses at 854-858 West End Avenue and 254 West 102nd Street Listed historic place
    860 feet
Show all 6
  1. Nicholas Roerich Museum
    1,160 feet
  2. Schinasi House Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  3. 352 and 353 Riverside Drive, Townhouses At Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New York Buddhist Church Landmark
    630 feet
  2. Ansche Chesed Synagogue House of worship
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Westside Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,030 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,120 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 103rd 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, NYC Records, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.