St Nicholas Avenue & West 147th Street

St Nicholas Avenue and West 147th 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, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Bandshell in Jackie Robinson Park is 440 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about a minute on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 33 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
120 feet · 1 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 147 St · M3
Within a walk
33 places
14 religious buildings, 4 schools and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Nicholas Avenue & West 147th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 120 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
    120 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
    0.4 miles
    C
  2. 145 St 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 147 St, 90 feet away, for the M3.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 147 St M3
    90 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Nicholas Avenue.

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Nicholas Ave & W 150 St 26 docks in all
    780 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
    1,000 feet
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 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 May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2024
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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
90 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 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 4 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

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

West side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • 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 233 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1893 and 1898.

  1. Mount Zion Lutheran Church Parish House Designated landmark
    550 feet
  2. Washington Heights Baptist Church Designated landmark
    730 feet
  3. Jackie Robinson Play Center Comfort Station Designated landmark
    730 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Neighborhood Charter School of Harlem School
    820 feet
  2. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
  3. Neighborhood Charter School of Harlem 2 School
    990 feet
Show all 7
  1. Upper Manhattan Mental Health Center Preschool
    1,160 feet
  2. P.S. 153 Adam Clayton Powell School
    1,240 feet
  3. Hamilton Heights School Pre-K
    1,240 feet
  4. The William Lynch School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bandshell in Jackie Robinson Park Park feature · landmark
    440 feet
  2. Donnellan Square
    630 feet
  3. Sugar Hill Garden
    650 feet
Show all 7
  1. Edgecombe Park
    690 feet
  2. Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary Garden
    690 feet
  3. Jackie Robinson Park
    900 feet
  4. Convent Garden
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    790 feet
  2. Bailey House Listed historic place
    890 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Zion Lutheran Church Landmark
    700 feet
  2. First Calvary Baptist Church House of worship
    940 feet
  3. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    980 feet
Show all 7
  1. Crucifixion Church House of worship
    1,040 feet
  2. St Stephen African Church House of worship
    1,040 feet
  3. Temple Convenant House of worship
    1,180 feet
  4. Greater Tabernacle Baptist Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Jackie Robinson Pool Swimming pool
    480 feet
  2. Jackie Robinson Recreation Center Landmark
    720 feet
  3. Older adult center at 420 West 145th Street Older adult center
    990 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    370 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,130 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along St Nicholas Avenue or West 147th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.