St Nicholas Avenue & West 114th Street

St Nicholas Avenue and West 114th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Harlem (South), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. All Souls Church West Harlem is 110 feet away, and Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing & Visual Arts is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
110 St-Malcolm X Plaza
1,060 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
460 feet
Adam C Powell Blvd/W 114 St · M2
Within a walk
27 places
8 religious buildings, 6 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Nicholas Avenue & West 114th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, 1,060 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza 2, 3
    1,060 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
    1,140 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 114 St, 460 feet away, for the M2.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Adam C Powell Blvd/W 114 St M2
    460 feet
    M2

Next buses at this stop

  1. M2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 67 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Adam Clayton Powell Blvd & W 115 St 22 docks in all
    500 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at East 116th Street & FDR Drive, 1.3 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 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

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
29 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,400 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 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and October 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 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

North side of West 114th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 114th Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Four buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italian Renaissance, and built between 1899 and 1913.

  1. Graham Court Apartments Designated landmark
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 parks
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Frederick Douglass Academy II Secondary School
    730 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School-Harlem West School
    730 feet
  3. Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing & Visual Arts School · landmark
    730 feet
Show all 7
  1. Citizens Care Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet
  2. Opportunity Charter School
    1,100 feet
  3. STEM Institute of Manhattan School
    1,100 feet
  4. Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 4 School
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Samuel Marx Triangle
    360 feet
  2. Martin Luther King, Jr. Playground
    680 feet
  3. A Philip Randolph Square
    850 feet
Show all 6
  1. Luigi's Garden of Love Garden
    930 feet
  2. Carrie McCracken TRUCE Garden
    1,140 feet
  3. Central Park Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Malcolm X Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,060 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library Landmark · listed historic place
    720 feet
  2. West 114th Street Historic District Listed historic place
    760 feet
  3. Minton's Playhouse Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. All Souls Church West Harlem House of worship
    110 feet
  2. Mount Neboh Baptist Church Listed historic place
    200 feet
  3. Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    310 feet
Show all 5
  1. Canaan Baptist Church House of worship
    460 feet
  2. First Corinthian Baptist Church Landmark
    600 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 50 Lenox Avenue Older adult center
    1,090 feet
  2. Morningside Post Office
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    970 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    1,200 feet
  3. Lidl Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,270 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along St Nicholas Avenue or West 114th 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.