West 120th Street & Morningside Drive

West 120th Street and Morningside Drive meet at a three-way junction in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Morningside Park is 60 feet away. The nearest subway, 116 St-Columbia University, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 20 places to eat. About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1909 and 1926, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
116 St-Columbia University
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
Amsterdam Av/W 120 St · M11, M60 SBS
Within a walk
10 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 playgrounds and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 120th Street & Morningside Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 116 St-Columbia University, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 116 St-Columbia University 1
    0.4 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Railrider's Throne” (1991) by Michelle Greene at the 116 St-Columbia University station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Amsterdam Av/W 120 St, 590 feet away, for the M11 and M60 SBS.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Amsterdam Av/W 120 St M11, M60 SBS · Shelter
    590 feet
    M11 M60 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M11 …
  2. M60 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Morningside Dr & Amsterdam Ave 35 docks in all
    630 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Marginal Street & Henry Hudson Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 123 Morningside Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 532 West 122nd Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10027
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7
Police precinct
26
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morningside Heights
Elevation
114 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

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 1909 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 134 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Morningside Drive

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of West 120th Street

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of West 120th Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and five buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were mostly built between 1926 and 1956.

  1. Croton Aqueduct, West 119th Street Gatehouse Designated landmark
    540 feet
  2. Public School 36 Designated landmark
    740 feet
  3. Casa Italiana Designated landmark
    820 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 college
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Teachers College Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    780 feet
  2. P.S. 036 Margaret Douglas School
    830 feet
  3. Teachers College - Columbia Univ College
    1,100 feet
Show all 4
  1. Columbia Greenhouse Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Morningside Park
    60 feet
  2. Playground 123 Playground
    660 feet
  3. Gatehouse Garden
    680 feet
Show all 4
  1. 116th Street Playground
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Pupin Physics Laboratories, Columbia University Listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Morningside Field House Recreation center
    700 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and two food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Morningside Drive or West 120th Street.

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