Riverside Drive & West 82nd Street

Riverside Drive and West 82nd 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, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. River Run Playground is 190 feet away. The nearest subway, 79 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
79 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Riverside Dr/W 82 St · M5
Within a walk
16 places
6 religious buildings, 3 listed historic places and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 82nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 79 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. 79 St 1
    0.3 miles
    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, 90 feet away, for the M5.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 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
    110 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 830 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.8 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
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 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 3,400 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 1900 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 137 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the maidenhair tree.

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 May 2020 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

North side of West 82nd Street

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

South side of West 82nd Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 166 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1893 and 1900.

  1. The Selkirk Designated landmark
    320 feet
  2. Grammar School No. 9 Designated landmark
    600 feet
  3. Three Arts Club of New York Designated landmark
    730 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 park features
  • 2 schools
  • 1 museum
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. M811 - Mickey Mantle School
    610 feet
  2. Calhoun School Landmark
    660 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    60 feet
  2. River Run Playground
    190 feet
  3. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    540 feet
Show all 4
  1. South Lawn in Riverside Park Park feature
    890 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public School 9 Listed historic place
    610 feet
  2. Riverside Drive-West 80th-81st Streets Historic District Listed historic place
    630 feet
  3. Red House Listed historic place
    920 feet
Show all 4
  1. Children's Museum of Manhattan Museum
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Carlebach Shul Landmark
    890 feet
  2. All Angels Church Landmark
    940 feet
  3. Congregation Ohav Sholom House of worship
    980 feet
Show all 5
  1. Holy Trinity RC Church House of worship
    1,170 feet
  2. First Baptist Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Bank branches

  1. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    820 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Zabar's Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 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 ten places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 82nd 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.