Riverside Drive & West 111th Street

Riverside Drive and West 111th Street meet at a five-way junction in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Morningside Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Bank Street College of Education is 420 feet away, and Nicholas Roerich Museum is 1,060 feet away. The nearest subway, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), is about three minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cathedral Pkwy (110 St)
700 feet · 3 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Riverside Dr/W 112 St · M5
Within a walk
19 places
5 religious buildings, 3 listed historic places and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 111th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cathedral Pkwy (110 St), 700 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 112 St, 350 feet away, for the M5.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 112 St M5
    350 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 38 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
    660 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 100 Claremont Avenue Charging for electric cars, seven Level 2 chargers
    0.6 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10025
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7
Police precinct
26
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morningside Heights
Elevation
106 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 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 1907 and 1922.

Trees

NYC Parks records 186 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Siberian elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of West 111th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

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 61 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival. They were mostly built between 1897 and 1909.

  1. Manhasset Apartments Designated landmark
    710 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Louis Kossuth Monument Statue by János Horvay, 1928
    490 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 college
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bank Street College of Education School
    420 feet
  2. Bank Street Col of Educ College
    420 feet
  3. School at Columbia University (The) School
    970 feet
Show all 5
  1. St Hilda's & St Hugh's School
    1,200 feet
  2. The Family Annex Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    100 feet
  2. 112th Street Tot Lot Playground
    270 feet
  3. 110th Street Tot Lot Playground
    520 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Julia Gabriel People's Garden
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 110th Street-Cathedral Parkway Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    730 feet
  2. 352 and 353 Riverside Drive, Townhouses At Listed historic place
    980 feet
  3. Nicholas Roerich Museum
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. Schinasi House Listed historic place
    1,080 feet
  2. Morningside Heights Library
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ramath Orah Congregation Listed historic place
    890 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    450 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    940 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Westside Market Supermarket
    710 feet
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    840 feet
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    580 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    690 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and ten 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 Pedestrian Path, Riverside Drive or West 111th 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.