Riverside Drive & West 73rd Street

Riverside Drive and West 73rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. South Lawn in Riverside Park is 20 feet away, and Rutgers Presbyterian Church is 1,010 feet away. The nearest subway, 72 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 1, 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
72 St
1,310 feet · 5 min on foot · 1, 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Riverside Dr/W 73 St · M5
Within a walk
19 places
7 religious buildings, 4 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 73rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 72 St, 1,310 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 72 St 1, 2, 3
    1,310 feet
    1 2 3

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. 2 …
  3. 3 …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. 2 …
  3. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. 79 St 1
    0.5 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Laced Canopy” (2002) by Robert Hickman at the 72 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 73 St, 120 feet away, for the M5.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 73 St M5
    120 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & W 72 St 41 docks in all
    210 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 11th Avenue Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 300 West End Avenue Charging for electric cars, 14 Level 2 chargers
    910 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10023
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6
Police precinct
20
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side-Lincoln Square
Elevation
64 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 5,300 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 1913 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 128 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 73rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of West 73rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 170 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1889 and 1904.

  1. Level Club and Masonic Hotel Designated landmark
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 dog run
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Manhattan Day School
    640 feet
  2. Bright Horizons at West 72nd Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  3. 2109 Broadway Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    20 feet
  2. South Lawn in Riverside Park Park feature
    20 feet
  3. West 72 St Dog Run in Riverside Park Dog run
    320 feet
Show all 7
  1. Riverside Park South Park
    730 feet
  2. Neufeld Playground
    920 feet
  3. Septuagesimo UNO Park
    1,210 feet
  4. Verdi Square
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Chatsworth Apartments and Annex Listed historic place
    590 feet
  2. Ansonia Hotel Listed historic place
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christian Community Church House of worship
    370 feet
  2. Rutgers Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,010 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,120 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,120 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fairway Market Supermarket
    1,320 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 73rd 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.