Riverside Drive & West 148th Street

Riverside Drive and West 148th Street meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 3,263 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Palisades Playground is 60 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about five minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
1,210 feet · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Broadway/W 147 St · M4, M5
Within a walk
13 places
6 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 148th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 1,210 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 145 St 1
    1,210 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, 630 feet away, for the M4 and M5.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M4 …
  2. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & W 148 St 22 docks in all
    70 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,263 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 269th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,634 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Southbound on Riverside Drive1,9741,006
Northbound on Riverside Drive1,289628
Total3,2631,634

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
76 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,200 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 1924.

Trees

NYC Parks records 100 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
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and September 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of West 148th Street

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

South side of West 148th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

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

  1. Beaumont Apartments Designated landmark
    600 feet
  2. Hamilton Theater Designated landmark
    700 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
    520 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 post office

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Palisades Playground
    60 feet
  2. Riverside Park
    150 feet
  3. Recreational Area Park
    340 feet
Show all 6
  1. Ten Mile River Playground
    590 feet
  2. Maggie's Garden
    760 feet
  3. Mo' Pals Garden
    860 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Tabernacle 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    920 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witness Broadway House of worship
    1,150 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Hamilton Grange Post Office
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    850 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 148th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.