Riverside Drive & West 135th Street

Riverside Drive and West 135th Street meet at a three-way junction in Manhattanville-West Harlem, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Riverside Park is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, 137 St-City College, is about five minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them parks, and ten places to eat. About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1905 and 1926, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
16 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
137 St-City College
1,180 feet · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
W 135 St/Riverside Dr · M5, M11
Within a walk
8 places
4 parks, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 135th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 137 St-City College, 1,180 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. 137 St-City College 1
    1,180 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 125 St 1
    0.5 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Fossils” (1988) by Steve Wood at the 137 St-City College station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 135 St/Riverside Dr, 140 feet away, for the M5 and M11.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 135 St/Riverside Dr M5, M11 · Shelter
    140 feet
    M5 M11
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …
  2. M11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 133 St & 12 Ave 19 docks in all
    640 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at West 135th Street, 720 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 3260 Broadway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10031
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7
Police precinct
30
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Manhattanville-West Harlem
Elevation
76 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,500 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 1905 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 97 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Riverside Drive

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 16 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 17 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 29 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 13 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-7PM

North side of West 135th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of West 135th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at West Harlem Piers.

  1. Voice IV Sculpture by Nari Ward, 2009
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 3 schools
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Kipp Infinity Charter School
    800 feet
  2. Kipp S.T.A.R. College Preparatory Charter School
    810 feet
  3. Kipp Star Harlem College Prep Elementary School
    810 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park
    30 feet
  2. West Harlem Piers Park
    850 feet
  3. Jenny's Garden
    990 feet
Show all 5
  1. Riverbank State Park
    1,100 feet
  2. Montefiore Square
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,070 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,200 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 135th 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, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.