Riverside Drive & West 151st Street

Riverside Drive and West 151st Street meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The sculpture “Ralph Ellison Memorial” is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat. About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1917 and 1926, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
3 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
Broadway/W 151 St · M4, M5
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 151st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. 145 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 157 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 151 St, 680 feet away, for the M4 and M5.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 151 St M4, M5
    680 feet
    M4 M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M4 …
  2. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & W 153 St 21 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 1 mile 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 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 3 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 December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2017
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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
82 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,500 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 1917 and 1926.

Since 2014 at least 144 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 143 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of West 151st Street

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

South side of West 151st 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

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
    210 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

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 garden
  • 1 museum
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park
    30 feet
  2. Recreational Area Park
    750 feet
  3. Palisades Playground
    800 feet
Show all 4
  1. Maggie's Garden
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Museum of the American Indian Museum
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witness Broadway House of worship
    690 feet
  2. Tabernacle 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    860 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Extra Jumbo by Associated Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 151st 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.