West 122nd Street & Claremont Avenue

West 122nd Street and Claremont Avenue meet at a four-way crossing 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. Sakura Park is 50 feet away, and Manhattan School of Music is 180 feet away. The nearest subway, 125 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, four of them colleges, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
125 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Broadway/W 122 St · M4, M104
Within a walk
19 places
4 colleges, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 122nd Street & Claremont Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 125 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. 125 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 116 St-Columbia University 1
    0.3 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “River to River” (1991) by Wopo Holup at the 125 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 122 St, 320 feet away, for the M4 and M104.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 122 St M4, M104 · Shelter
    320 feet
    M4 M104
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M4 …
  2. M104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & W 122 St 33 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway southbound at Marginal Street & Henry Hudson Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3260 Broadway Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 100 Claremont Avenue Charging for electric cars, seven Level 2 chargers
    240 feet

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

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
110 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 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 1926 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 119 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 46 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Claremont Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Claremont Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 17 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 122nd Street

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

South side of West 122nd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and five buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as English Perpendicular Gothic. They were built between 1908 and 1930.

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Japanese Tori Lantern, 1960
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 colleges
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Manhattan School of Music College
    180 feet
  2. The Riverside Church in the City of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    250 feet
  3. Union Theological Seminary College · landmark · listed historic place
    490 feet
Show all 8
  1. Jewish Theological Semnry of America College
    610 feet
  2. Barnard College Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    730 feet
  3. Kipp Beyond Charter School
    840 feet
  4. Teachers College - Columbia Univ College
    1,100 feet
  5. The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Infant, toddler and preschool care
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sakura Park
    50 feet
  2. Sakura Playground
    270 feet
  3. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    310 feet
Show all 4
  1. Claremont (Dolphin) Playground
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. International House Listed historic place
    650 feet
  2. General Grant National Memorial Historic site · landmark · listed historic place
    660 feet
  3. Brinckerhoff Milbank and Fiske Halls Listed historic place
    820 feet
Show all 4
  1. Pupin Physics Laboratories, Columbia University Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Riverside Church Landmark · listed historic place
    250 feet
  2. Corpus Christi Church House of worship
    640 feet
  3. Board Missions Methodist Church House of worship
    740 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and two food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Claremont Avenue or West 122nd 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.