Riverside Drive & West 95th Street

Riverside Drive and West 95th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side (Central), Manhattan. The corner is also named Shimon Peres Place by local law. It lies on the edge of the Riverside-West End Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Joan Of Arc Park is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 1, 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places and seven places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
1,190 feet · 5 min on foot · 1, 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Riverside Dr/W 94 St · M5
Within a walk
15 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 park features and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 95th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 1,190 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 96 St 1, 2, 3
    1,190 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 …

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, 320 feet away, for the M5.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. West End Ave & W 94 St 31 docks in all
    930 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 310 feet by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2012
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10025
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6
Police precinct
24
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side (Central)
Elevation
38 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Shimon Peres Place, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,600 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 152 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Shimon Peres Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 107 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 28 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 17 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 19 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 95th Street

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

South side of West 95th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 56 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1900 and 1911.

  1. Cliff Dwelling; (or) Cliff Dweller Designated landmark
    450 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 park features
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 075 Emily Dickinson School · landmark
    630 feet
  2. Riverside Montessori Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2 · Pre-K
    710 feet
  3. The West Side Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet
Show all 5
  1. Vivvi 15 Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,280 feet
  2. Ideal School and Academy School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Joan Of Arc Park
    40 feet
  2. Joan of Arc Island in Joan Of Arc Park Park feature
    40 feet
  3. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    50 feet
Show all 7
  1. Joan of Arc Monument in Joan Of Arc Park Park feature
    530 feet
  2. Dinosaur Playground
    610 feet
  3. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    1,250 feet
  4. Hippo Playground
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Pomander Walk District Listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Symphony Space Theatre Theater or concert hall
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Heichal Moshe House of worship
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Henry Hudson Parkway, Riverside Drive or West 95th 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, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.