Riverside Drive & West 86th Street

Riverside Drive and West 86th 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. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Franklin Towers stands 340 feet away, and River Run Playground is 1,120 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them listed historic places.

Safety record
13 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Riverside Dr/W 86 St · M5
Within a walk
15 places
4 listed historic places, 3 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 86th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 1,150 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. 86 St 1
    1,150 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 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 86 St, 100 feet away, for the M5.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 86 St M5
    100 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. W 87 St & West End Ave 47 docks in all
    1,020 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.6 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
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 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 and 24 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side (Central)
Elevation
75 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

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 1899 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 100 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of West 86th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 86th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 180 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1891 and 1901.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 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
    870 feet
  2. Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan School
    900 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    40 feet
  2. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    60 feet
  3. Dog Run W 87 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    220 feet
Show all 4
  1. River Run Playground
    1,120 feet

Health care

  1. The Riverside Nursing home or hospice
    420 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Red House Listed historic place
    550 feet
  2. Isaac L. Rice Mansion Listed historic place
    870 feet
  3. Soldiers & Sailors Monument Monument or memorial
    880 feet
Show all 5
  1. United Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew Complex Listed historic place
    950 feet
  2. St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church Listed historic place
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 86th 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.