Riverside Drive & West 85th Street

Riverside Drive and West 85th 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. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park is 50 feet away, and Soldiers & Sailors Monument is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places and four places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Riverside Dr/W 85 St · M5
Within a walk
14 places
3 listed historic places, 3 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 85th 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 five 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
    0.5 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 85 St, 30 feet away, for the M5.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 85 St M5
    30 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 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
    780 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
    0.4 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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
74 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 1900 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 120 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and February 2024, 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 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 85th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 8AM-4PM

South side of West 85th Street

  • No parking 5 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, 151 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1892 and 1907.

  1. Three Arts Club of New York Designated landmark
    340 feet
  2. Franklin Towers Designated landmark
    500 feet
  3. Metropolitan Montessori School Designated landmark
    520 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Calhoun School (The) School
    590 feet
  2. Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

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

Health care

  1. The Riverside Nursing home or hospice
    710 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Red House Listed historic place
    270 feet
  2. Soldiers & Sailors Monument Monument or memorial
    1,160 feet
  3. Isaac L. Rice Mansion Listed historic place
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. United Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew Complex Listed historic place
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Ohav Sholom House of worship
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 85th 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.