Riverside Drive & West 88th Street

Riverside Drive and West 88th 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, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Riverside Park is 30 feet away, and Ideal School and Academy is 1,030 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about five minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, six of them religious buildings.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Riverside Dr/W 89 St · M5
Within a walk
24 places
6 religious buildings, 5 listed historic places and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 88th 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.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  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. 96 St 1, 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    1 2 3

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 89 St, 130 feet away, for the M5.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 89 St M5
    130 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 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
    1,000 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 303 West 96th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2026
  • 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
24
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side (Central)
Elevation
77 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 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 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 113 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO SCHOOL FACULTY SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of West 88th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 88th Street

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

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, 158 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1890 and 1909.

  1. Franklin Towers Designated landmark
    560 feet
  2. Hotel Wayne Designated landmark
    720 feet
  3. St. Agatha's School for Girls Designated landmark
    760 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
    350 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan School
    350 feet
  2. Ideal School and Academy School
    1,030 feet
  3. Beit Rabban Day School
    1,210 feet
Show all 5
  1. Ideal School of Manhattan - Upper School
    1,210 feet
  2. Riverside Montessori Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    30 feet
  2. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    110 feet
  3. Dog Run W 87 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    400 feet
Show all 6
  1. Hippo Playground
    850 feet
  2. Joan of Arc Island in Joan Of Arc Park Park feature
    950 feet
  3. Joan Of Arc Park
    960 feet

Health care

  1. The Riverside Nursing home or hospice
    300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Isaac L. Rice Mansion Listed historic place
    330 feet
  2. Soldiers & Sailors Monument Monument or memorial · landmark
    330 feet
  3. Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun and Community House Listed historic place
    1,090 feet
Show all 6
  1. Red House Listed historic place
    1,090 feet
  2. St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church Listed historic place
    1,170 feet
  3. Three Arts Club Listed historic place
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Bnai Jeshurun House of worship
    980 feet
  2. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,040 feet
  3. Congregation Heichal Moshe House of worship
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,240 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is 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 88th 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.