Riverside Drive & West 109th Street

Riverside Drive and West 109th Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Morningside Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Riverside Park is 10 feet away, and New York Buddhist Church is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), is about three minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cathedral Pkwy (110 St)
670 feet · 3 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Riverside Dr/W 108 St · M5
Within a walk
23 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 109th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), 670 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) 1
    670 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
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 108 St, 270 feet away, for the M5.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cathedral Pkwy & Broadway 25 docks in all
    600 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 100 Claremont Avenue Charging for electric cars, seven Level 2 chargers
    0.7 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 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
101 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 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 1906 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 158 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2020 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 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of West 109th Street

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

South side of West 109th 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 Morningside Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 67 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1898 and 1908.

  1. Manhasset Apartments Designated landmark
    370 feet
  2. Explorers Club Designated landmark
    800 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. General Franz Sigel Statue by Karl Bitter, 1907
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. School at Columbia University (The) School
    750 feet
  2. Bank Street Col of Educ College
    960 feet
  3. Bank Street College of Education School
    960 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon School
    1,070 feet
  2. West Prep Academy School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    10 feet
  2. 110th Street Tot Lot Playground
    500 feet
  3. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    800 feet
Show all 7
  1. 112th Street Tot Lot Playground
    810 feet
  2. Dog Run W 105 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    1,110 feet
  3. 105th Street Tot Lot Playground
    1,120 feet
  4. Straus Park
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 352 and 353 Riverside Drive, Townhouses At Listed historic place
    440 feet
  2. Nicholas Roerich Museum
    520 feet
  3. Schinasi House Listed historic place
    540 feet
Show all 4
  1. 110th Street-Cathedral Parkway Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    690 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ramath Orah Congregation Listed historic place
    760 feet
  2. New York Buddhist Church House of worship
    1,000 feet
  3. Pentecostal Church John 8:32 House of worship
    1,100 feet
Show all 4
  1. Ascension Roman Catholic Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    470 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    600 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    710 feet
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    790 feet
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    630 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,040 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and eight 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 109th 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.