West 122nd Street & Morningside Avenue

West 122nd Street and Morningside Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The corner is also named Rev. Dr. James H. Robinson Avenue by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Playground 123 is 100 feet away, and Kipp Star College Prep Charter School is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, 125 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the A, B, C and D. Within a five-minute walk are 32 public places and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
125 St
1,210 feet · 5 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
Manhattan Av/W 122 St · M3
Within a walk
32 places
7 religious buildings, 6 schools and 14 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 125 St, 1,210 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. 125 St A, B, C, D
    1,210 feet
    A B C D

Next trains at this station

Uptown
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. B …
  3. C …
  4. D …
Downtown
4 lines
  1. A …
  2. B …
  3. C …
  4. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 116 St B, C
    0.5 miles
    B C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Manhattan Av/W 122 St, 520 feet away, for the M3.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Manhattan Av/W 122 St M3
    520 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Morningside Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Morningside Ave & W 123 St 35 docks in all
    250 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
    650 feet
  2. 532 West 122nd Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10027
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
7 and 9 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
26 and 28 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Morningside Heights
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Rev. Dr. James H. Robinson Avenue, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 136 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rev. Dr. James H. Robinson Avenue.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Morningside Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of West 122nd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of West 122nd Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1897 and 1966.

  1. Mount Olive Fire Baptized Holiness Church Designated landmark
    630 feet
  2. Public School 36 Designated landmark
    700 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Harlem Hybrid Sculpture by Richard Howard Hunt, 1976
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 public places.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 gardens
  • 11 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Columbia Secondary School
    750 feet
  2. Kipp Star College Prep Charter School
    750 feet
  3. P.S. 125 Ralph Bunche School
    750 feet
Show all 8
  1. P.S. 180 Hugo Newman School
    800 feet
  2. P.S. 036 Margaret Douglas School
    1,020 feet
  3. New York French-American Charter School
    1,070 feet
  4. Petits Poussins Too Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,210 feet
  5. Visions of Success I Trade or language school
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Morningside Park
    60 feet
  2. Playground 123 Playground
    100 feet
  3. Playground One Twenty Five CXXV Playground
    320 feet
Show all 8
  1. Harlem Grows P.S. 125 Community Garden
    450 feet
  2. Roosevelt Triangle
    720 feet
  3. Hancock Park
    750 feet
  4. Our Little Green Acre (Garden Eight) Garden
    1,020 feet
  5. 116th Street Playground (North Area) Playground
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Manhattan Ave. W. 120th-123rd Streets Historic District Listed historic place
    320 feet
  2. Brigadier General Winfield Scott Hancock Monument Monument or memorial
    760 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Joseph of the Holy Family Church House of worship
    930 feet
  2. Soul Saving Christ Crusade House of worship
    1,070 feet
  3. Tabernaculo de la Fe House of worship
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Morningside Field House Recreation center
    240 feet
  2. Manhattanville Post Office
    940 feet
  3. NYC Business Solutions Upper Manhattan Center Career or business center
    1,180 feet
Show all 5
  1. Grant Community Center
    1,310 feet
  2. Older adult center at 1301 Amsterdam Avenue Older adult center
    1,310 feet

Fire and police

  1. 28th Precinct Police station
    1,000 feet
  2. Engine 37/Ladder 40 Fire station
    1,080 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Lidl Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,200 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and ten 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 Morningside Avenue or West 122nd 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 Records, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.