West 123rd Street & Manhattan Avenue

West 123rd Street and Manhattan Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The corner is also named Fannie Pennington Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Hancock Park is 50 feet away, and Columbia Secondary School is 930 feet away. The nearest subway, 125 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the A, B, C and D. Within a five-minute walk are 42 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
125 St
510 feet · 2 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 124 St · M100
Within a walk
42 places
12 religious buildings, 8 gardens and 13 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 123rd Street & Manhattan Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 125 St, 510 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. 125 St A, B, C, D
    510 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
    0.4 miles
    B C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 124 St, 350 feet away, for the M100.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 124 St M100
    350 feet
    M100

Next buses at this stop

  1. M100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. St Nicholas Ave & Manhattan Ave 31 docks in all
    200 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
    830 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 four 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 June 2024.

About this corner

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

This corner is also named Fannie Pennington Way, a co-naming enacted on July 29, 2018 (Local Law 139 of 2018).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Manhattan Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Manhattan Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of West 123rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of West 123rd Street

  • No parking 6 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 two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1897 and 1941.

  1. Mount Olive Fire Baptized Holiness Church Designated landmark
    400 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Harriet Tubman Plaza.

  1. Harriet Tubman Memorial Sculpture by Alison Saar, 2008
    520 feet
  2. Harlem Hybrid Sculpture by Richard Howard Hunt, 1976
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 42 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 8 gardens
  • 6 schools
  • 3 parks
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 11 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New York French-American Charter School
    890 feet
  2. Petits Poussins Too Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    920 feet
  3. Columbia Secondary School
    930 feet
Show all 8
  1. Kipp Star College Prep Charter School
    930 feet
  2. P.S. 125 Ralph Bunche School
    930 feet
  3. P.S. 180 Hugo Newman School
    1,150 feet
  4. P.S. 036 Margaret Douglas School
    1,190 feet
  5. Visions of Success I Trade or language school
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hancock Park
    50 feet
  2. Playground One Twenty Five CXXV Playground
    490 feet
  3. Morningside Park
    500 feet
Show all 13
  1. Playground 123 Playground
    590 feet
  2. Harlem Grows P.S. 125 Community Garden
    630 feet
  3. Our Little Green Acre (Garden Eight) Garden
    720 feet
  4. Roosevelt Triangle
    730 feet
  5. William B. Washington Memorial Garden
    940 feet
  6. St. Nicholas Miracle Garden
    1,060 feet
  7. Five Star Gardens Garden
    1,090 feet
  8. Clayton Williams Community Garden
    1,130 feet
  9. CEP Community Garden
    1,150 feet
  10. Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Gardens Garden
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brigadier General Winfield Scott Hancock Monument Monument or memorial
    80 feet
  2. Manhattan Ave. W. 120th-123rd Streets Historic District Listed historic place
    500 feet
  3. Public School 157 Listed historic place
    980 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Apollo Theatre Theater or concert hall · listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Soul Saving Christ Crusade House of worship
    370 feet
  2. United House of Prayer for All People House of worship
    760 feet
  3. St Joseph of the Holy Family Church House of worship
    890 feet
Show all 5
  1. Rescue Baptist Church House of worship
    1,140 feet
  2. Tabernaculo de la Fe House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Manhattanville Post Office
    710 feet
  2. Morningside Field House Recreation center
    720 feet
  3. NYC Business Solutions Upper Manhattan Center Career or business center
    740 feet

Fire and police

  1. 28th Precinct Police station
    460 feet
  2. Engine 37/Ladder 40 Fire station
    1,090 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    570 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    930 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    930 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    500 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 20 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Manhattan Avenue or West 123rd 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.