Riverside Drive & West 89th Street

Riverside Drive and West 89th 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, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan is 110 feet away, and Soldiers & Sailors Monument is 140 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, six of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Riverside Dr/W 89 St · M5
Within a walk
23 places
6 religious buildings, 4 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 89th 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.

  • 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.

  • 7 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

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & W 91 St 59 docks in all
    740 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 four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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
76 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 1897 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 121 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2020 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 89th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 89th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • 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, 180 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1890 and 1899.

  1. (former) Rutgers Club Designated landmark
    630 feet
  2. Rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church Designated landmark
    740 feet
  3. Franklin Towers Designated landmark
    750 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
    160 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 park features
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan School
    110 feet
  2. Ideal School and Academy School
    750 feet
  3. Beit Rabban Day School
    940 feet
Show all 6
  1. Ideal School of Manhattan - Upper School
    940 feet
  2. Riverside Montessori Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2 · Pre-K
    950 feet
  3. The West Side Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    40 feet
  2. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    190 feet
  3. Hippo Playground
    570 feet
Show all 7
  1. Joan of Arc Island in Joan Of Arc Park Park feature
    680 feet
  2. Dog Run W 87 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    680 feet
  3. Joan Of Arc Park
    680 feet
  4. Joan of Arc Monument in Joan Of Arc Park Park feature
    1,120 feet

Health care

  1. The Riverside Nursing home or hospice
    580 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Isaac L. Rice Mansion Listed historic place
    100 feet
  2. Soldiers & Sailors Monument Monument or memorial · landmark
    140 feet
  3. Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun and Community House Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Landmark
    770 feet
  2. Congregation Heichal Moshe House of worship
    790 feet
  3. Congregation Bnai Jeshurun House of worship
    990 feet

Bank branches

  1. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and two food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 89th 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.