Riverside Drive & West 83rd Street

Riverside Drive and West 83rd 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, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Three Arts Club of New York stands 480 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places and eight places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
Riverside Dr/W 82 St · M5
Within a walk
16 places
4 religious buildings, 3 listed historic places and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 83rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 86 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. 79 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Westside Views” (1989) by Nitza Tufiño (in collaboration with Grosvenor Neighborhood House Student Muralists) at the 86 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 82 St, 200 feet away, for the M5.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 1,110 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 six crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2026

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
55 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 1899 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 120 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

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 April 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 83rd Street

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

South side of West 83rd Street

  • No parking 4 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 1892 and 1901.

  1. Three Arts Club of New York Designated landmark
    480 feet
  2. The Selkirk Designated landmark
    540 feet
  3. Metropolitan Montessori School Designated landmark
    680 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 park features
  • 2 schools
  • 1 dog run
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. M811 - Mickey Mantle School
    890 feet
  2. Calhoun School Landmark
    940 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    30 feet
  2. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    260 feet
  3. River Run Playground
    260 feet
Show all 5
  1. Dog Run W 87 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    1,050 feet
  2. South Lawn in Riverside Park Park feature
    1,170 feet

Health care

  1. The Riverside Nursing home or hospice
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Red House Listed historic place
    630 feet
  2. Public School 9 Listed historic place
    890 feet
  3. Riverside Drive-West 80th-81st Streets Historic District Listed historic place
    920 feet
Show all 4
  1. Children's Museum of Manhattan Museum
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Ohav Sholom House of worship
    810 feet
  2. Carlebach Shul House of worship
    1,170 feet
  3. All Angels Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Bank branches

  1. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Zabar's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 83rd 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.