St Nicholas Avenue & West 153rd Street

St Nicholas Avenue and West 153rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Northwest Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. William A. Harris Garden is 60 feet away, and Wright Brothers Playground is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, 155 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 37 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
155 St
540 feet · 2 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 153 St · M3
Within a walk
37 places
13 religious buildings, 5 listed historic places and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Nicholas Avenue & West 153rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 155 St, 540 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 155 St C
    540 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. C …
Downtown
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    0.3 miles
    A B C D
  2. 155 St B, D
    0.4 miles
    B D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 153 St, 40 feet away, for the M3.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 153 St M3
    40 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Nicholas Avenue.

  • 25 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Nicholas Ave & W 155 St 23 docks in all
    490 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 800 St Nicholas Avenue Gas station
    720 feet
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10031
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7 and 9 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
30
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill
Elevation
125 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 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 1906 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 39 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 91 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and March 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 153rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of West 153rd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 138 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1892 and 1906.

  1. Wilson Major Morris Community Center Designated landmark
    230 feet
  2. William McKinley Masonic Temple (now Prince Hall Masonic Temple) Designated landmark
    490 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 5 listed historic places
  • 5 parks
  • 4 gardens
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Broadway Housing Communities Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    480 feet
  2. P.S./I.S. 210 - Twenty-First Century Academy for Community Leadership School
    940 feet
  3. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 028 Wright Brothers School
    1,000 feet
  2. New Heights Academy Charter School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. William A. Harris Garden
    60 feet
  2. Sugar Hill Hope Garden
    130 feet
  3. Highbridge Park
    690 feet
Show all 12
  1. Convent Garden
    400 feet
  2. Wright Brothers Playground
    770 feet
  3. Carmansville Playground
    780 feet
  4. Donnellan Square
    840 feet
  5. Jackie Robinson Park
    940 feet
  6. Coogan's Bluff Playground
    1,060 feet
  7. Edgecombe Park
    1,180 feet
  8. Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary Garden
    1,180 feet
  9. Bushman Steps Park
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hooper Fountain Monument or memorial
    800 feet
  2. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    820 feet
  3. John James Audubon Houses Listed historic place
    860 feet
Show all 6
  1. Bailey House Listed historic place
    990 feet
  2. 32nd Police Precinct Garage Listed historic place
    1,010 feet
  3. Ellington, Edward Kennedy Duke" Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    340 feet
  2. Congregational Church of God House of worship
    650 feet
  3. St Luke AME Church House of worship
    730 feet
Show all 10
  1. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    740 feet
  2. St Catherine Genoa Church House of worship
    800 feet
  3. Bethel Holy Church of Mount Sinai House of worship
    820 feet
  4. Russian Holy Fathers Church House of worship
    1,070 feet
  5. Crucifixion Church House of worship
    1,080 feet
  6. Temple Convenant House of worship
    1,210 feet
  7. Greater File Chapel Baptist Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Fire and police

  1. 30th Precinct Police station
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along St Nicholas Avenue or West 153rd 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.