Riverside Drive & West 87th Street

Riverside Drive and West 87th 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, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The Riverside is 140 feet away, and Hotel Wayne stands 590 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, five of them listed historic places.

Safety record
2 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Riverside Dr/W 87 St · M5
Within a walk
20 places
5 listed historic places, 4 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 87th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. 86 St 1
    1,160 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 87 St, 70 feet away, for the M5.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 87 St M5
    70 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
    740 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
    0.5 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 nine crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

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

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10024
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6
Police precinct
24
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 3,100 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 108 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 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 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of West 87th Street

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-3PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of West 87th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 170 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1891 and 1904.

  1. Franklin Towers Designated landmark
    380 feet
  2. Hotel Wayne Designated landmark
    590 feet
  3. St. Agatha's School for Girls Designated landmark
    690 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Riverside Park.

  1. Soldiers and Sailors Monument Temple by Paul E.M. DuBoy, 1902
    610 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 listed historic places
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 park features
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan School
    620 feet
  2. Calhoun School (The) School
    1,150 feet
  3. Ideal School and Academy School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    60 feet
  2. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    80 feet
  3. Dog Run W 87 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    180 feet
Show all 6
  1. Hippo Playground
    1,110 feet
  2. Joan of Arc Island in Joan Of Arc Park Park feature
    1,210 feet
  3. Joan Of Arc Park
    1,220 feet

Health care

  1. The Riverside Nursing home or hospice
    140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Isaac L. Rice Mansion Listed historic place
    590 feet
  2. Soldiers & Sailors Monument Monument or memorial · landmark
    590 feet
  3. Red House Listed historic place
    830 feet
Show all 6
  1. St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church Listed historic place
    920 feet
  2. Three Arts Club Listed historic place
    970 feet
  3. United Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew Complex Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Bnai Jeshurun House of worship
    1,150 feet
  2. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 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 87th 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.