Riverside Drive & West 153rd Street

Riverside Drive and West 153rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. American Numismatic Society stands 790 feet away, and Our Lady of Esperanza Church is 1,260 feet away. The nearest subway, 157 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them parks, and one place to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
157 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
1,060 feet
Broadway/W 153 St · M4, M5
Within a walk
8 places
3 parks, 1 arts or cultural center and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 153rd 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
    0.5 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 153 St, 1,060 feet away, for the M4 and M5.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 153 St M4, M5
    1,060 feet
    M4 M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M4 …
  2. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack 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
    200 feet

By car

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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 1920 and 1932.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 96 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and September 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 153rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of West 153rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Five buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and mostly built between 1910 and 1923.

  1. American Numismatic Society Designated landmark
    790 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 1 arts or cultural center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 museum
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Recreational Area Park
    90 feet
  2. Riverside Park
    140 feet
  3. Fort Washington Park
    890 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Museum of the American Indian Museum
    900 feet
  2. Chapel of the Intercession Complex and Trinity Cemetery Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. American Academy of Arts & Letters Arts or cultural center · landmark
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Esperanza Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Extra Jumbo by Associated Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and five food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 153rd Street.

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