Riverside Drive & West 152nd Street

Riverside Drive and West 152nd 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. Riverside Park is 20 feet away, and Palisades Playground is 1,080 feet away. The nearest subway, 157 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
157 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
Broadway/W 152 St · M4, M5
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 3 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 152nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 157 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. 157 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. 145 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 152 St, 690 feet away, for the M4 and M5.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 152 St M4, M5 · Shelter
    690 feet
    M4 M5
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M4 …
  2. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & W 153 St 21 docks in all
    290 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
    0.3 miles
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.8 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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

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
83 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 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 1914 and 1928.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 110 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and June 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 152nd Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of West 152nd Street

  • No parking 5 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
    480 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
    540 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 museum
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Urban Concepts of New York Round the Clock Nursery Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park
    20 feet
  2. Recreational Area Park
    480 feet
  3. Palisades Playground
    1,080 feet
Show all 4
  1. Fort Washington Park
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Museum of the American Indian Museum
    930 feet
  2. Chapel of the Intercession Complex and Trinity Cemetery Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witness Broadway House of worship
    960 feet
  2. Russian Holy Fathers Church House of worship
    1,140 feet
  3. Tabernacle 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,130 feet
  2. Extra Jumbo by Associated Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and ten food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 152nd Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.