Wadsworth Avenue & West 176th Street

Wadsworth Avenue and West 176th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Washington Heights (South), Manhattan. The corner is also named Johnny Ventura Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Washington Heights is 380 feet away. The nearest subway, 175 St, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 43 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
175 St
900 feet · 3 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
400 feet
Broadway/W 176 St · Bx7, M5, M100
Within a walk
23 places
10 religious buildings, 5 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Wadsworth Avenue & West 176th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 175 St, 900 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 175 St A
    900 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. A …
Downtown
1 line
  1. A …

Also within a walk

  1. 181 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1
  2. 168 St-Washington Hts 1, A, C
    0.4 miles
    1 A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 176 St, 400 feet away, for the Bx7, M5 and M100.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 176 St Bx7, M5, M100
    400 feet
    Bx7 M5 M100

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …
  2. M5 …
  3. M100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 53 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wadsworth Ave & W 175 St 24 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Fort Washington Avenue, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10033
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
33
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (South)
Elevation
197 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Johnny Ventura Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,000 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 1914 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Johnny Ventura Way.

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 March 2013 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Wadsworth Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Wadsworth Avenue

  • Farmers market 3 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY JUNE 1 - NOV 30 THURSDAY 6AM-6PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

North side of West 176th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 176th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Indo-Persian and neo-Georgian, one each, and built between 1913 and 1930.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Plaza de las Americas.

  1. The Source Fountain by Ester Partegàs, 2015
    260 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 bus terminal
  • 1 park
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Washington Heights Child Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    380 feet
  2. Kipp Star Elementary Charter School
    760 feet
  3. P.S. 115 Alexander Humboldt School
    760 feet
Show all 7
  1. Divino Nino 175th St 3k for All Pre-K
    790 feet
  2. School in the Square Public Charter School
    910 feet
  3. Incarnation School
    980 feet
  4. P.S./I.S. 173 Fort Washington School in the Heights School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. J. Hood Wright Park
    830 feet
  2. J Hood Wright Park Playground
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Plaza de las Americas Pedestrian plaza
    370 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. United Palace Theatre Theater or concert hall · landmark
    210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Washington Heights House of worship
    380 feet
  2. Fort Washington Presbyterian Church Landmark · listed historic place
    490 feet
  3. Church of the Incarnation RC House of worship
    760 feet
Show all 7
  1. Broadway Temple Washington Heights United Methodist Church House of worship
    780 feet
  2. St Spyridon Hellenic Orthodox Church House of worship
    920 feet
  3. Congregacion de Mita of NY House of worship
    1,020 feet
  4. Shaare Hatikvah Congregation House of worship
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. J Hood Wright Recreation Center
    1,130 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    910 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Emporium Supermarket
    460 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    530 feet
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    850 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Other places

  1. George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal
    1,090 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 43 places to eat and 34 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Wadsworth Avenue or West 176th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.