St Nicholas Avenue & West 154th Street

St Nicholas Avenue and West 154th 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 Northwest Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Wilson Major Morris Community Center stands 440 feet away. The nearest subway, 155 St, is about a minute on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 38 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
155 St
270 feet · 1 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 153 St · M3
Within a walk
38 places
13 religious buildings, 6 listed historic places and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Nicholas Avenue & West 154th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 155 St, 270 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 155 St C
    270 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. 163 St-Amsterdam Av C
    0.4 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 153 St, 190 feet away, for the M3.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 153 St M3
    190 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
  • 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
    210 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 89 St Nicholas Place Gas station
    840 feet
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10032
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
131 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 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 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

West side of St Nicholas Avenue

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

North side of West 154th Street

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

South side of West 154th Street

  • No parking 4 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 is one Individual Landmark, and 121 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. William McKinley Masonic Temple (now Prince Hall Masonic Temple) Designated landmark
    240 feet
  2. Wilson Major Morris Community Center Designated landmark
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 6 listed historic places
  • 4 gardens
  • 4 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Broadway Housing Communities Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    210 feet
  2. P.S. 028 Wright Brothers School
    730 feet
  3. Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S./I.S. 210 - Twenty-First Century Academy for Community Leadership School
    1,140 feet
  2. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. William A. Harris Garden
    120 feet
  2. Highbridge Park
    410 feet
  3. Wright Brothers Playground
    490 feet
Show all 12
  1. Sugar Hill Hope Garden
    400 feet
  2. Convent Garden
    670 feet
  3. Coogan's Bluff Playground
    780 feet
  4. Jackie Robinson Park
    850 feet
  5. Bushman Steps Park
    940 feet
  6. Carmansville Playground
    1,060 feet
  7. John T Brush Stairway in Highbridge Park Park feature
    1,120 feet
  8. Donnellan Square
    1,120 feet
  9. Family Garden - Polo Grounds Towers (NYCHA) Garden
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. John James Audubon Houses Listed historic place
    590 feet
  2. Hooper Fountain Monument or memorial
    750 feet
  3. Ellington, Edward Kennedy Duke" Listed historic place
    920 feet
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  1. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    1,090 feet
  2. Mary McLeod Bethune Gardens Listed historic place
    1,190 feet
  3. 32nd Police Precinct Garage Listed historic place
    1,210 feet
  4. Bailey House Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregational Church of God House of worship
    510 feet
  2. Bethel Holy Church of Mount Sinai House of worship
    550 feet
  3. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    600 feet
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  1. St Luke AME Church House of worship
    900 feet
  2. St Catherine Genoa Church House of worship
    920 feet
  3. Greater File Chapel Baptist Church House of worship
    1,000 feet
  4. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    1,020 feet
  5. Russian Holy Fathers Church House of worship
    1,120 feet
  6. North Presbyterian Church Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Fire and police

  1. 30th Precinct Police station
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along St Nicholas Avenue or West 154th 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.