St Nicholas Avenue & West 149th Street

St Nicholas Avenue and West 149th Street meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church is 460 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the A, B, C and D. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
400 feet · 2 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 150 St · M3
Within a walk
29 places
10 religious buildings, 6 gardens and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Nicholas Avenue & West 149th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 400 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    400 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
    0.3 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 150 St, 310 feet away, for the M3.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 150 St M3 · Shelter
    310 feet
    M3
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Nicholas Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Nicholas Ave & W 150 St 26 docks in all
    260 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 6 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 November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 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
97 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two 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 1902 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 85 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

West side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 214 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival. They were mostly built between 1893 and 1900.

  1. Jackie Robinson Play Center Comfort Station Designated landmark
    560 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 6 gardens
  • 3 parks
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    410 feet
  2. New Heights Academy Charter School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Donnellan Square
    110 feet
  2. Sugar Hill Garden
    260 feet
  3. Edgecombe Park
    660 feet
Show all 12
  1. Convent Garden
    590 feet
  2. Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary Garden
    660 feet
  3. Bandshell in Jackie Robinson Park Park feature · landmark
    690 feet
  4. Jackie Robinson Park
    700 feet
  5. Playground 149 CIL Playground
    920 feet
  6. William A. Harris Garden
    1,120 feet
  7. Sugar Hill Hope Garden
    1,190 feet
  8. Carmansville Playground
    1,250 feet
  9. Lucille McClarey Wicked Friendship Garden
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    260 feet
  2. Bailey House Listed historic place
    490 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    460 feet
  2. Crucifixion Church House of worship
    520 feet
  3. Temple Convenant House of worship
    740 feet
Show all 6
  1. First Calvary Baptist Church House of worship
    830 feet
  2. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    850 feet
  3. Mount Zion Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Jackie Robinson Pool Swimming pool
    1,010 feet
  2. Jackie Robinson Recreation Center
    1,250 feet

Fire and police

  1. 30th Precinct Police station
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along St Nicholas Avenue or West 149th 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.