Riverside Drive & West 98th Street

Riverside Drive and West 98th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Dinosaur Playground is 460 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 1, 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 1, 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Riverside Dr/W 97 St · M5
Within a walk
10 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Riverside Drive & West 98th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 96 St 1, 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    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. 103 St 1
    0.4 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 97 St, 320 feet away, for the M5.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Riverside Dr/W 97 St M5
    320 feet
    M5

Next buses at this stop

  1. M5 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 100 St & Broadway 39 docks in all
    1,280 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
    1,290 feet
  2. 303 West 96th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,300 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2024.

About this corner

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

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 4,200 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 1909 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 160 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Riverside Drive

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 98th Street

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

South side of West 98th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 99 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
    440 feet
  2. Hotel Paris; Paris Apartments Designated landmark
    650 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Riverside Park.

  1. Firemen's Memorial Sarcophagus by Attilio Piccirilli, 1913
    540 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 park features
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Morningside Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,030 feet
  2. Yaldaynu Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,030 feet
  3. P.S. 075 Emily Dickinson School · landmark
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    10 feet
  2. Dinosaur Playground
    460 feet
  3. Joan of Arc Island in Joan Of Arc Park Park feature
    920 feet
Show all 5
  1. Joan Of Arc Park
    920 feet
  2. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ansche Chesed Synagogue Landmark
    1,030 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Riverside Drive or West 98th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.