St Nicholas Avenue & West 170th Street

St Nicholas Avenue and West 170th Street meet at a three-way junction in Washington Heights (South), Manhattan. The corner is also named David B. Friedland Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Castle Bridge School is 560 feet away. The nearest subway, 168 St-Washington Hts, is about a minute on foot, for the 1, A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 44 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
168 St-Washington Hts
210 feet · 1 min on foot · 1, A, C
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 170 St · M3
Within a walk
18 places
7 religious buildings, 2 listed historic places and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Nicholas Avenue & West 170th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 168 St-Washington Hts, 210 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 168 St-Washington Hts 1, A, C
    210 feet
    1 A C

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. A …
  3. C …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. A …
  3. C …

Also within a walk

  1. 175 St A
    0.4 miles
    A
  2. 163 St-Amsterdam Av C
    0.5 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 170 St, 140 feet away, for the M3.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 170 St M3
    140 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on St Nicholas Avenue and West 170th Street.

  • 72 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 6 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 171 St & St Nicholas Ave 31 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Fort Washington Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4116 Broadway Gas station
    1,300 feet
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10032
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
33
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (South)
Elevation
186 feet above sea level

This corner is also named David B. Friedland Square, a co-naming enacted on September 29, 1982 (Local Law 60 of 1982).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are 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 1910 and 1923.

Since 2014 at least 8 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 95 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on David B. Friedland Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on West 170th Street (both sides).

East side of St Nicholas Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 111280, 112805 and 112806.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Beaux-Arts, and built between 1897 and 1898.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Mitchel Square.

  1. Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial Statue by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1922
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Castle Bridge School
    560 feet
  2. P.S. 128 Audubon School
    560 feet
  3. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Audubon Playground
    340 feet
  2. Mitchel Square
    600 feet
  3. Highbridge Park
    1,140 feet

Health care

  1. New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Presbyterian Center Hospital
    890 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 168th Street Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    790 feet
  2. Fort Washington Avenue (22nd Corps of Engineers) Armory Listed historic place
    930 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Broadway Temple Washington Heights United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,130 feet
  2. Church of the Incarnation RC House of worship
    1,240 feet
  3. Fort Washington Presbyterian Church Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 67 Fire station
    580 feet
  2. 33rd Precinct Police station
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    550 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    500 feet
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 44 places to eat and 20 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 170th 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.