Riverside Drive & West 147th Street

Riverside Drive and West 147th Street meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Riverside Park is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about four minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
950 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
500 feet
Broadway/W 147 St · M4, M5
Within a walk
19 places
5 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 147th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 950 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 145 St 1
    950 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    0.4 miles
    A B C D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 147 St, 500 feet away, for the M4 and M5.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 147 St M4, M5
    500 feet
    M4 M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M4 …
  2. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & W 148 St 22 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at West 135th Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3740 Broadway Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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
  • 1 person killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 1913 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 107 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and January 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of West 147th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of West 147th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Renaissance. They were built between 1912 and 1913.

  1. Hamilton Theater Designated landmark
    580 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Ralph Ellison Memorial Sculpture by Elizabeth Catlett, 2003
    780 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 gardens
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 153 Adam Clayton Powell School
    1,250 feet
  2. Hamilton Heights School Pre-K
    1,250 feet
  3. The William Lynch School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park
    100 feet
  2. Palisades Playground
    270 feet
  3. Recreational Area Park
    530 feet
Show all 9
  1. Mo' Pals Garden
    750 feet
  2. Ten Mile River Playground
    850 feet
  3. Maggie's Garden
    1,020 feet
  4. Riverbank State Park
    1,100 feet
  5. Riverbank Playground
    1,210 feet
  6. Serenity Gardens Garden
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. P.S. 186 Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Tabernacle 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Hamilton Grange Post Office
    940 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    840 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    1,110 feet
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,090 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and 18 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 147th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.