Riverside Drive & West 139th Street

Riverside Drive and West 139th Street meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner is also named Genevieve (Jenny) Eason Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Dog Run W 142 St in Riverside Park is 710 feet away. The nearest subway, 137 St-City College, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them parks, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
137 St-City College
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Riverside Dr/W 139 St · M11
Within a walk
10 places
3 parks, 1 dog run and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 139th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 137 St-City College, 1,150 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. 137 St-City College 1
    1,150 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 145 St 1
    0.4 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 Riverside Dr/W 139 St, 40 feet away, for the M11.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 139 St M11
    40 feet
    M11

Next buses at this stop

  1. M11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & W 138 St 30 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at West 135th Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 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)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Genevieve (Jenny) Eason Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,600 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 1909 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 87 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Genevieve (Jenny) Eason Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

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

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of West 139th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of West 139th Street

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

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 3 other places

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park
    50 feet
  2. Jenny's Garden
    70 feet
  3. Dog Run W 142 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    710 feet
Show all 6
  1. Riverbank State Park
    720 feet
  2. Riverbank Playground
    840 feet
  3. Montefiore Square
    990 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Montefiore Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. St. Walburga's Academy Listed historic place
    360 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Riverbank Park Swimming Hall Swimming pool
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,160 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 12 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 139th 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 Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.