Riverside Drive & West 122nd Street

Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street meet at a three-way junction in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The corner stands inside Riverside Park. Between 2021 and 2025, 27 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. General Grant National Memorial is 240 feet away, and Sakura Playground is 250 feet away. The nearest subway, 125 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, three of them colleges, and five places to eat.

Safety record
15 hurt
27 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
125 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Riverside Dr/W 122 St · M5
Within a walk
17 places
3 colleges, 3 playgrounds and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 122nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 125 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. 125 St 1
    0.4 miles
    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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “River to River” (1991) by Wopo Holup at the 125 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 122 St, 170 feet away, for the M5.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 122 St M5
    170 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & W 122 St 33 docks in all
    720 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 27 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10024
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7
Police precinct
26
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morningside Heights

Homes

About 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 1926 and 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 168 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 59 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 8AM-6PM ALL DAYS
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 18 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 122nd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of West 122nd Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as English Perpendicular Gothic. They were built between 1908 and 1930.

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Japanese Tori Lantern, 1960
    530 feet
  2. Amiable Child Memorial Urn, 1967
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 colleges
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 4 other places

This corner stands inside Riverside Park.

Schools and child care

  1. The Riverside Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    280 feet
  2. Manhattan School of Music College
    610 feet
  3. Union Theological Seminary College · landmark · listed historic place
    910 feet
Show all 6
  1. Jewish Theological Semnry of America College
    1,030 feet
  2. Barnard College Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,070 feet
  3. Kipp Beyond Charter School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    surrounds this corner
  2. Sakura Park
    200 feet
  3. Sakura Playground
    250 feet
Show all 5
  1. Claremont (Dolphin) Playground
    830 feet
  2. 117th Street Playground
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. General Grant National Memorial Historic site · landmark · listed historic place
    240 feet
  2. International House Listed historic place
    780 feet
  3. Brinckerhoff Milbank and Fiske Halls Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Riverside Church Landmark · listed historic place
    280 feet
  2. Board Missions Methodist Church House of worship
    760 feet
  3. Corpus Christi Church House of worship
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and one food store.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 122nd Street.

Sources: NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYC City Planning, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 3, 2026.