Riverside Drive & West 90th Street

Riverside Drive and West 90th 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, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Hippo Playground is 270 feet away, and the temple “Soldiers and Sailors Monument” is 340 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, four of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 90th 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
    0.3 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, 210 feet away, for the M5.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on West 90th Street.

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverside Dr & W 91 St 59 docks in all
    430 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
72 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,400 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 1922.

Trees

NYC Parks records 144 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

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

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of West 90th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 90th Street

  • No parking 4 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, 217 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1892 and 1901.

  1. (former) Rutgers Club Designated landmark
    330 feet
  2. Rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church Designated landmark
    470 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
    340 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan School
    420 feet
  2. Ideal School and Academy School
    440 feet
  3. Riverside Montessori Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2 · Pre-K
    650 feet
Show all 7
  1. The West Side Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    960 feet
  2. Beit Rabban Day School
    1,030 feet
  3. Ideal School of Manhattan - Upper School
    1,030 feet
  4. Vivvi 15 Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    50 feet
  2. Hippo Playground
    270 feet
  3. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    360 feet
Show all 7
  1. Joan of Arc Island in Joan Of Arc Park Park feature
    360 feet
  2. Joan Of Arc Park
    370 feet
  3. Joan of Arc Monument in Joan Of Arc Park Park feature
    800 feet
  4. Dog Run W 87 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    990 feet

Health care

  1. The Riverside Nursing home or hospice
    890 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Soldiers & Sailors Monument Monument or memorial · landmark
    340 feet
  2. Isaac L. Rice Mansion Listed historic place
    410 feet
  3. Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun and Community House Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Landmark
    460 feet
  2. Congregation Heichal Moshe House of worship
    480 feet
  3. Congregation Bnai Jeshurun House of worship
    1,090 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,040 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 90th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.