Riverside Drive & West 108th Street

Riverside Drive and West 108th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Morningside Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Manhasset Apartments stands 370 feet away, and Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), is about four minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 29 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cathedral Pkwy (110 St)
940 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Riverside Dr/W 108 St · M5
Within a walk
24 places
6 religious buildings, 4 listed historic places and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 108th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) 1
    940 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 103 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1
  2. 116 St-Columbia University 1
    0.5 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 108 St, 60 feet away, for the M5.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 108 St M5
    60 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.8 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 five crashes at this corner, fewer 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 April 2025.

What the city has done here

  • 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
97 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,700 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 1901 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 146 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 46 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2014 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 18 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Riverside Drive

  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 108th Street

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

South side of West 108th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 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 Morningside Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 89 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1898 and 1903.

  1. Manhasset Apartments Designated landmark
    370 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
    530 feet
  2. Isidor and Ida Straus Statue by Augustus Lukeman, 1915
    730 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 4 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 parks
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon School
    960 feet
  2. School at Columbia University (The) School
    1,020 feet
  3. West Prep Academy School
    1,040 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bank Street Col of Educ College
    1,230 feet
  2. Bank Street College of Education School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    60 feet
  2. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    520 feet
  3. 110th Street Tot Lot Playground
    610 feet
Show all 7
  1. Dog Run W 105 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    840 feet
  2. 105th Street Tot Lot Playground
    850 feet
  3. Straus Park
    900 feet
  4. 112th Street Tot Lot Playground
    1,050 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 352 and 353 Riverside Drive, Townhouses At Listed historic place
    170 feet
  2. Nicholas Roerich Museum
    250 feet
  3. Schinasi House Listed historic place
    270 feet
Show all 5
  1. 110th Street-Cathedral Parkway Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    960 feet
  2. Riverside-West 105th Street Historic District Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New York Buddhist Church Landmark
    730 feet
  2. Ascension Roman Catholic Church House of worship
    1,020 feet
  3. Ramath Orah Congregation Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
Show all 4
  1. Pentecostal Church John 8:32 House of worship
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 221 West 107th Street Older adult center
    1,160 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    740 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    870 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    910 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    970 feet
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    1,060 feet
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    900 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 108th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.