St Nicholas Avenue & West 113th Street

St Nicholas Avenue and West 113th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Harlem (South), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Mount Neboh Baptist Church is 510 feet away, and Luigi's Garden of Love is 1,230 feet away. The nearest subway, 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, is about three minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places, nine of them schools, and 11 places to eat.

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St Nicholas Avenue & West 113th Street Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, 750 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza 2, 3
    750 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
    1,240 feet
    2 3
  2. 116 St B, C
    0.3 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 Adam C Powell Blvd/W 113 St, 510 feet away, for the M2.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Adam C Powell Blvd/W 113 St M2 · Shelter
    510 feet
    M2
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 44 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
    730 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
    0.8 miles
  2. 532 West 122nd Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, August 2025

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
27 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 1900 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 10 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 83 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 9 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in July 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of St Nicholas Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 9 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Opportunity Charter School
    1,000 feet
  2. STEM Institute of Manhattan School
    1,000 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 4 School
    1,000 feet
Show all 11
  1. Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School
    1,030 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School-Harlem West School
    1,030 feet
  3. Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing & Visual Arts School
    1,030 feet
  4. P.S. 185 - the Early Childhood Discovery and Design Magnet School Pre-K
    1,200 feet
  5. Harlem Link Charter School
    1,200 feet
  6. The Locke School of Arts and Engineering School
    1,200 feet
  7. Citizens Care Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet
  8. Harlem Link Charter School-Annex School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Martin Luther King, Jr. Playground
    520 feet
  2. Samuel Marx Triangle
    670 feet
  3. Central Park Listed historic place
    970 feet
Show all 7
  1. East 110th Street Playground
    1,100 feet
  2. A Philip Randolph Square
    1,150 feet
  3. Luigi's Garden of Love Garden
    1,230 feet
  4. Electric Ladybug Garden
    1,240 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Malcolm X Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    750 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library Listed historic place
    1,020 feet
  2. West 114th Street Historic District Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. All Souls Church West Harlem House of worship
    390 feet
  2. Mount Neboh Baptist Church Listed historic place
    510 feet
  3. Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    620 feet
Show all 5
  1. Canaan Baptist Church House of worship
    770 feet
  2. First Corinthian Baptist Church House of worship
    910 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    660 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Lidl Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.