Riverside Drive & West 84th Street

Riverside Drive and West 84th 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. Riverside Park is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them listed historic places, and six places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Riverside Dr/W 84 St · M5
Within a walk
12 places
3 listed historic places, 2 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 84th 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 six 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
    0.4 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 84 St, 90 feet away, for the M5.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 84 St M5
    90 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
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & W 82 St 75 docks in all
    500 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. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 160 West 84th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2023
  • 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
64 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 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 1927.

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
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2019 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 84th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 84th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 146 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1892 and 1907.

  1. Three Arts Club of New York Designated landmark
    320 feet
  2. Metropolitan Montessori School Designated landmark
    550 feet
  3. Franklin Towers Designated landmark
    680 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Calhoun School
    870 feet
  2. P.S. M811 - Mickey Mantle School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    40 feet
  2. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    40 feet
  3. River Run Playground
    560 feet
Show all 4
  1. Dog Run W 87 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    750 feet

Health care

  1. The Riverside Nursing home or hospice
    980 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Red House Listed historic place
    340 feet
  2. Public School 9 Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  3. Riverside Drive-West 80th-81st Streets Historic District Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Ohav Sholom House of worship
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Zabar's Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 84th 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.