Riverside Drive & West 81st Street

Riverside Drive and West 81st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side (Central), Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Riverside-West End Historic District Extension I. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Riverside Park is 20 feet away, and Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park is 810 feet away. The nearest subway, 79 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places and eight places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
79 St
1,280 feet · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
Riverside Dr/W 82 St · M5
Within a walk
17 places
5 listed historic places, 5 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 81st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 79 St, 1,280 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. 79 St 1
    1,280 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 86 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 82 St, 210 feet away, for the M5.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 82 St M5
    210 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & W 82 St 75 docks in all
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 550 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 160 West 84th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

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
45 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,300 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 1901 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 158 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

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 May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

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

North side of West 81st Street

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

South side of West 81st Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Riverside-West End Historic District Extension I.

Within 820 feet, 136 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1892 and 1905.

  1. The Selkirk Designated landmark
    290 feet
  2. Grammar School No. 9 Designated landmark
    620 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 listed historic places
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Calhoun School Landmark
    380 feet
  2. P.S. M811 - Mickey Mantle School
    800 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    20 feet
  2. River Run Playground
    280 feet
  3. South Lawn in Riverside Park Park feature
    610 feet
Show all 5
  1. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    810 feet
  2. Neufeld Playground
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Riverside Drive-West 80th-81st Streets Historic District Listed historic place
    360 feet
  2. Public School 9 Listed historic place
    800 feet
  3. Red House Listed historic place
    1,190 feet
Show all 5
  1. Apthorp Apartments Listed historic place
    1,270 feet
  2. Three Arts Club Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Carlebach Shul Landmark
    610 feet
  2. All Angels Church Landmark
    670 feet
  3. First Baptist Church Landmark
    960 feet
Show all 5
  1. Congregation Ohav Sholom House of worship
    1,170 feet
  2. Holy Trinity RC Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    860 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,010 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Zabar's Supermarket
    1,020 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Fairway Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 81st 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.