St Nicholas Avenue & West 111th Street

St Nicholas Avenue and West 111th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Harlem (South), Manhattan. The corner is also named Malcolm X Plaza by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. East 110th Street Playground is 490 feet away, and Charles A Dana Discovery Center in Central Park is 760 feet away. The nearest subway, 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, is about a minute on foot, for the 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places and ten places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
110 St-Malcolm X Plaza
130 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
Central Park North/Malcolm X Blvd · M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
23 places
6 religious buildings, 4 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Nicholas Avenue & West 111th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, 130 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza 2, 3
    130 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 116 St 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3
  2. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) B, C
    0.4 miles
    B C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Message from Malcolm” (1998) by Maren Hassinger at the 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Central Park North/Malcolm X Blvd, 260 feet away, for the M2, M3 and M4.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Central Park North/Malcolm X Blvd M2, M3, M4
    260 feet
    M2 M3 M4

Next buses at this stop

  1. M2 …
  2. M3 …
  3. M4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on West 111th Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lenox Ave & W 111 St 36 docks in all
    110 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at East 116th Street & FDR Drive, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 123 Morningside Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 1425 Madison Avenue Charging for electric cars, 32 Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes 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 June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10026
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
9
Police precinct
28
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Harlem (South)
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Malcolm X Plaza, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,300 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 1900 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Malcolm X Plaza.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and October 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 111th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 111th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 park features
  • 2 parks
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Harlem Link Charter School
    850 feet
  2. P.S. 185 - the Early Childhood Discovery and Design Magnet School Pre-K
    990 feet
  3. The Locke School of Arts and Engineering School
    990 feet
Show all 7
  1. Harlem Link Charter School-Annex School
    1,110 feet
  2. Harlem Academy School
    1,150 feet
  3. Rise Up Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,240 feet
  4. Sunshine Daycare of East Harlem Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    350 feet
  2. East 110th Street Playground
    490 feet
  3. Martin Luther King, Jr. Playground
    700 feet
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  1. Charles A Dana Discovery Center in Central Park Park feature
    760 feet
  2. Harlem Meer in Central Park Park feature
    850 feet
  3. Nutters Battery in Central Park Park feature
    900 feet
  4. Samuel Marx Triangle
    1,280 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Malcolm X Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Duke Ellington Statue Monument or memorial
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. All Souls Church West Harlem House of worship
    1,010 feet
  2. Bethel Christian Temple House of worship
    1,090 feet
  3. Mount Neboh Baptist Church Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
Show all 4
  1. Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 50 Lenox Avenue Older adult center
    680 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    320 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Central Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 12 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along St Nicholas Avenue or West 111th Street.

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 Records, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.