West 151st Street & St Nicholas Place

West 151st Street and St Nicholas Place meet at a three-way junction in Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Northeast Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Convent Garden is 220 feet away, and Hooper Fountain is 1,050 feet away. The nearest subway, 145 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the A, B, C and D. Within a five-minute walk are 35 public places and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
145 St
910 feet · 3 min on foot · A, B, C, D
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 151 St · M3
Within a walk
35 places
13 religious buildings, 6 gardens and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 151st Street & St Nicholas Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 145 St, 910 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    910 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. 155 St C
    1,240 feet
    C
  2. 155 St B, D
    0.5 miles
    B D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 151 St, 280 feet away, for the M3.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 151 St M3
    280 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Nicholas Place and West 151st Street.

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Convent Ave & W 151 St 24 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 800 St Nicholas Avenue Gas station
    350 feet
  2. 160 Convent Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, October 2015

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10031
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
9
Police precinct
30
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill
Elevation
105 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,500 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 1906 and 1921.

Since 2014 at least 39 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

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

North side of West 151st Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of West 151st Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill Northeast Historic District.

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 155 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1893 and 1906.

  1. Wilson Major Morris Community Center Designated landmark
    570 feet
  2. Jackie Robinson Play Center Comfort Station Designated landmark
    730 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 6 gardens
  • 4 parks
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    510 feet
  2. New Heights Academy Charter School
    1,060 feet
  3. Broadway Housing Communities Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S./I.S. 210 - Twenty-First Century Academy for Community Leadership School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Convent Garden
    220 feet
  2. Donnellan Square
    290 feet
  3. Edgecombe Park
    540 feet
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  1. Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary Garden
    540 feet
  2. Jackie Robinson Park
    580 feet
  3. Sugar Hill Garden
    670 feet
  4. William A. Harris Garden
    750 feet
  5. Playground 149 CIL Playground
    810 feet
  6. Sugar Hill Hope Garden
    820 feet
  7. Carmansville Playground
    880 feet
  8. Bandshell in Jackie Robinson Park Park feature
    1,070 feet
  9. Highbridge Park
    1,150 feet
  10. Lucille McClarey Wicked Friendship Garden
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Bailey House Listed historic place
    300 feet
  2. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    360 feet
  3. Hooper Fountain Monument or memorial
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. 32nd Police Precinct Garage Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    410 feet
  2. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    460 feet
  3. Crucifixion Church House of worship
    850 feet
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  1. Temple Convenant House of worship
    990 feet
  2. St Luke AME Church House of worship
    1,250 feet
  3. Congregational Church of God House of worship
    1,280 feet

Fire and police

  1. 30th Precinct Police station
    700 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    850 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown 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 nine food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along St Nicholas Place or West 151st Street.

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