Seaman Avenue & West 214th Street

Seaman Avenue and West 214th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Inwood, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Indian Road Playground is 190 feet away, and Emerson Playground is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Inwood-207 St, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them park features, and three places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Inwood-207 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
1,200 feet
Broadway/W 215 St · Bx7, Bx20
Within a walk
17 places
4 park features, 4 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Seaman Avenue & West 214th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Inwood-207 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Inwood-207 St A
    0.3 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

Downtown
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. 215 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “At the Start... At Long Last...” (1999) by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville at the Inwood-207 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 215 St, 1,200 feet away, for the Bx7 and Bx20.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 215 St Bx7, Bx20 · Shelter
    1,200 feet
    Bx7 Bx20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …
  2. Bx20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Seaman Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Seaman Ave & Isham St 23 docks in all
    600 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & Henry Hudson Parkway at Staff Street, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5080 Broadway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, August 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10034
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Inwood
Elevation
57 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,100 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 1926 and 1939.

Trees

NYC Parks records 192 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese pagoda tree and the mulberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2025 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Seaman Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 214th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 214th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Thirteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1921 and 1925.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 park features
  • 4 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Amber Charter School Inwood School
    810 feet
  2. International Resource for Parenting Trade or language school
    810 feet
  3. The Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd New York City School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    890 feet
Show all 6
  1. School in the Square Ecc School
    930 feet
  2. Good Shepherd School
    930 feet
  3. School in the Square Elementary School
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Isham Park
    40 feet
  2. Indian Road Playground
    190 feet
  3. Inwood Hill Park
    630 feet
Show all 9
  1. Homers Dog Run in Inwood Hill Park Dog run
    680 feet
  2. Boulders South Lawn in Isham Park Park feature
    690 feet
  3. 9 11 Memorial Rock in Isham Park Park feature
    730 feet
  4. Pats Lawn in Inwood Hill Park Park feature
    870 feet
  5. Emerson Playground
    940 feet
  6. Ginko Tree & Stairs in Isham Park Park feature
    1,110 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Muscota Marsh Public space
    830 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Good Shepherd Church Broadway House of worship
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three 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 Seaman Avenue or West 214th 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.