St Nicholas Avenue & Donnellon Square

St Nicholas Avenue and Donnellon Square meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District Extension. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Sugar Hill Garden is 150 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the A, B, C and D. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
390 feet · 2 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 148 St · M3
Within a walk
27 places
11 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Nicholas Avenue & Donnellon Square Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 390 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    390 feet
    A B C D

Next trains at this station

Uptown
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. B …
  3. C …
  4. D …
Downtown
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. B …
  3. C …
  4. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 155 St C
    0.3 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 148 St, 380 feet away, for the M3.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 148 St M3
    380 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Donnellon Square and St Nicholas Avenue.

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Nicholas Ave & W 150 St 26 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 800 St Nicholas Avenue Gas station
    870 feet
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

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 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10031
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
9
Police precinct
30
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill
Elevation
98 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,500 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 1902 and 1922.

Trees

NYC Parks records 88 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District Extension.

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 213 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1893 and 1900.

  1. Jackie Robinson Play Center Comfort Station Designated landmark
    510 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 3 parks
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    510 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Donnellan Square
    110 feet
  2. Sugar Hill Garden
    150 feet
  3. Edgecombe Park
    170 feet
Show all 10
  1. Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary Garden
    170 feet
  2. Bandshell in Jackie Robinson Park Park feature · landmark
    550 feet
  3. Jackie Robinson Park
    580 feet
  4. Convent Garden
    690 feet
  5. Playground 149 CIL Playground
    810 feet
  6. William A. Harris Garden
    1,220 feet
  7. Sugar Hill Hope Garden
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    360 feet
  2. Bailey House Listed historic place
    370 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    630 feet
  2. Crucifixion Church House of worship
    850 feet
  3. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    950 feet
Show all 6
  1. First Calvary Baptist Church House of worship
    1,090 feet
  2. Temple Convenant House of worship
    1,090 feet
  3. Mount Zion Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Jackie Robinson Pool Swimming pool
    1,000 feet
  2. Jackie Robinson Recreation Center
    1,240 feet

Fire and police

  1. 30th Precinct Police station
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    330 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Donnellon Square or St Nicholas Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.