Riverside Drive & West 105th Street

Riverside Drive and West 105th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Riverside-West 105th Street Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Riverside Park is 10 feet away, and the 105th Street Tot Lot is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, 103 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them listed historic places, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
103 St
1,310 feet · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
Riverside Dr/W 106 St · M5
Within a walk
14 places
4 listed historic places, 3 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 105th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 103 St, 1,310 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. 103 St 1
    1,310 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
    0.3 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 106 St, 290 feet away, for the M5.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 106 St M5
    290 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. West End Ave & W 107 St 31 docks in all
    970 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2023.

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
101 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,600 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 1901 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 153 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2020 and July 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of West 105th Street

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

South side of West 105th Street

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Riverside-West 105th Street Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 140 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1897 and 1908.

  1. Master Building Designated landmark
    450 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. General Franz Sigel Statue by Karl Bitter, 1907
    290 feet
  2. Isidor and Ida Straus Statue by Augustus Lukeman, 1915
    630 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 listed historic places
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 museum
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    10 feet
  2. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    100 feet
  3. 105th Street Tot Lot Playground
    110 feet
Show all 5
  1. Dog Run W 105 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    410 feet
  2. Straus Park
    830 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Riverside-West 105th Street Historic District Listed historic place
    230 feet
  2. Masters Building Listed historic place
    520 feet
  3. Nicholas Roerich Museum
    640 feet
Show all 5
  1. Schinasi House Listed historic place
    660 feet
  2. 352 and 353 Riverside Drive, Townhouses At Listed historic place
    760 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New York Buddhist Church Landmark
    110 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Westside Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and five food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 105th 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, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.