St Nicholas Avenue & West 146th Street

St Nicholas Avenue and West 146th Street meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Mount Zion Lutheran Church Parish House stands 380 feet away, and Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary is 950 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about a minute on foot, for the A, B, C and D. Within a five-minute walk are 35 public places and 28 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
310 feet · 1 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 145 St · M3
Within a walk
35 places
13 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Nicholas Avenue & West 146th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 310 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    310 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. 145 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1
  2. 155 St C
    0.5 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 145 St, 140 feet away, for the M3.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 145 St M3
    140 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Nicholas Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Edgecombe Ave & W 145 St 31 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 800 St Nicholas Avenue Gas station
    1,260 feet
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 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
83 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,600 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 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and July 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of West 146th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 252 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1891 and 1898.

  1. Mount Zion Lutheran Church Parish House Designated landmark
    380 feet
  2. Washington Heights Baptist Church Designated landmark
    510 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 parks
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Neighborhood Charter School of Harlem School
    560 feet
  2. Neighborhood Charter School of Harlem 2 School
    730 feet
  3. Upper Manhattan Mental Health Center Preschool
    900 feet
Show all 9
  1. Emma Bowen Therapeutic Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,070 feet
  2. P.S. 153 Adam Clayton Powell School
    1,150 feet
  3. Hamilton Heights School Pre-K
    1,150 feet
  4. The William Lynch School
    1,150 feet
  5. Urban Concepts of New York Round-The-Clock Nursery Pre-K
    1,150 feet
  6. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jackie Robinson Park
    630 feet
  2. Bandshell in Jackie Robinson Park Park feature · landmark
    700 feet
  3. Donnellan Square
    900 feet
Show all 7
  1. Sugar Hill Garden
    910 feet
  2. Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary Garden
    950 feet
  3. Edgecombe Park
    950 feet
  4. Serenity Gardens Garden
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
  2. Bailey House Listed historic place
    1,150 feet
  3. Hamilton Grange Library Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Zion Lutheran Church Landmark
    440 feet
  2. St Stephen African Church House of worship
    780 feet
  3. Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church House of worship
    970 feet
Show all 7
  1. First Calvary Baptist Church House of worship
    1,190 feet
  2. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    1,240 feet
  3. Jehovahs Witnesses Macombs Unit House of worship
    1,300 feet
  4. Crucifixion Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Jackie Robinson Pool Swimming pool
    440 feet
  2. Jackie Robinson Recreation Center Landmark
    520 feet
  3. Older adult center at 420 West 145th Street Older adult center
    730 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    630 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    870 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 places to eat and 19 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along St Nicholas Avenue or West 146th 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.