Riverside Drive & West 78th Street

Riverside Drive and West 78th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side (Central), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Riverside Park is 20 feet away, and River Run Playground is 1,120 feet away. The nearest subway, 79 St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
79 St
1,140 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Riverside Dr/W 77 St · M5
Within a walk
15 places
6 religious buildings, 3 listed historic places and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 78th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 79 St, 1,140 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 79 St 1
    1,140 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 72 St 1, 2, 3
    0.5 miles
    1 2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 77 St, 170 feet away, for the M5.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 77 St M5
    170 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Riverside Drive and West 78th Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & W 78 St 79 docks in all
    120 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 290 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 300 West End Avenue Charging for electric cars, 14 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 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 March 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2024
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10024
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6
Police precinct
20
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side (Central)
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,100 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 1896 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 111 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the apple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of West 78th Street

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

South side of West 78th Street

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 184 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1891 and 1898.

  1. The Collegiate School, Platten Hall Designated landmark
    690 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Riverside Park.

  1. Robert Ray Hamilton Fountain Fountain, 1906
    540 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature

Schools and child care

  1. Manhattan Day School
    1,150 feet
  2. Calhoun School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    20 feet
  2. South Lawn in Riverside Park Park feature
    20 feet
  3. Neufeld Playground
    390 feet
Show all 4
  1. River Run Playground
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Riverside Drive-West 80th-81st Streets Historic District Listed historic place
    790 feet
  2. Apthorp Apartments Listed historic place
    820 feet
  3. 79th Street Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Carlebach Shul Landmark
    570 feet
  2. West End Collegiate Church Landmark · listed historic place
    740 feet
  3. First Baptist Church House of worship
    1,020 feet
Show all 5
  1. All Angels Church House of worship
    1,130 feet
  2. Christian Community Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Zabar's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Fairway Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,190 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and one food store.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 78th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.