Riverside Drive & West 93rd Street

Riverside Drive and West 93rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Upper West Side (Central), Manhattan. The corner stands inside Joan Of Arc Park and lies on the edge of the Riverside-West End Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Joan of Arc Monument in Joan Of Arc Park is 20 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1, 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places and eight places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
1,120 feet · 4 min on foot · 1, 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
Riverside Dr/W 94 St · M5
Within a walk
21 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 93rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 1,120 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 96 St 1, 2, 3
    1,120 feet
    1 2 3

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. 2 …
  3. 3 …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. 2 …
  3. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. 86 St 1
    0.5 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bloemendaal” (2010) by Masamichi Udagawa & Sigi Moeslinger at the 96 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Riverside Dr/W 94 St, 260 feet away, for the M5.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 94 St M5
    260 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 960 feet by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, August 2016

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
70 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One of the streets is one-way

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 1903 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 356 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 93rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 93rd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 94 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1897 and 1908.

  1. (former) Rutgers Club Designated landmark
    670 feet
  2. Hotel Windemere Designated landmark
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

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

This corner stands inside Joan Of Arc Park.

Schools and child care

  1. Riverside Montessori Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2 · Pre-K
    160 feet
  2. The West Side Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    700 feet
  3. Ideal School and Academy School
    760 feet
Show all 7
  1. Vivvi 15 Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    730 feet
  2. The Goddard School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,120 feet
  3. P.S. 075 Emily Dickinson School · landmark
    1,170 feet
  4. Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Joan Of Arc Park
    surrounds this corner
  2. Joan of Arc Monument in Joan Of Arc Park Park feature
    20 feet
  3. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    130 feet
Show all 6
  1. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    710 feet
  2. Hippo Playground
    720 feet
  3. Dinosaur Playground
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Soldiers & Sailors Monument Monument or memorial
    1,090 feet
  2. Isaac L. Rice Mansion Listed historic place
    1,210 feet
  3. Pomander Walk District Listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Symphony Space Theatre Theater or concert hall
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Heichal Moshe House of worship
    690 feet
  2. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Landmark
    790 feet
  3. Advent Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and one food store.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 93rd 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.