Riverside Drive & West 149th Street

Riverside Drive and West 149th Street meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The sculpture “Ralph Ellison Memorial” is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about six minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
Broadway/W 149 St · M4, M5
Within a walk
12 places
6 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 149th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 145 St 1
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.5 miles
    A B C D
  2. 157 St 1
    0.5 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 149 St, 580 feet away, for the M4 and M5.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 149 St M4, M5 · Shelter
    580 feet
    M4 M5
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M4 …
  2. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 27 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
    240 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at West 135th Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3740 Broadway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 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
75 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,400 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 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 117 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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 September 2020 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 149th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of West 149th Street

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Arts & Crafts, and built between 1912 and 1913.

  1. Beaumont Apartments Designated landmark
    350 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
    260 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park
    70 feet
  2. Palisades Playground
    270 feet
  3. Recreational Area Park
    610 feet
Show all 6
  1. Maggie's Garden
    670 feet
  2. Ten Mile River Playground
    850 feet
  3. Mo' Pals Garden
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Tabernacle 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    760 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witness Broadway House of worship
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    630 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 149th 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.