West 152nd Street & St Nicholas Place

West 152nd 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 Northwest Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. William A. Harris Garden is 540 feet away. The nearest subway, 155 St, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 33 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
155 St
1,020 feet · 4 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 151 St · M3
Within a walk
33 places
11 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 152nd Street & St Nicholas Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 155 St, 1,020 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 155 St C
    1,020 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 145 St A, B, C, D
    1,170 feet
    A B C D
  2. 155 St B, D
    0.4 miles
    B D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 151 St, 390 feet away, for the M3.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Nicholas Place.

  • 20 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
    520 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 800 St Nicholas Avenue Gas station
    610 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 seven crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

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 3,300 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 1906 and 1922.

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 thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 145 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1893 and 1906.

  1. Wilson Major Morris Community Center Designated landmark
    460 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 4 parks
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    770 feet
  2. Broadway Housing Communities Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet
  3. P.S./I.S. 210 - Twenty-First Century Academy for Community Leadership School
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. New Heights Academy Charter School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Convent Garden
    340 feet
  2. William A. Harris Garden
    540 feet
  3. Donnellan Square
    550 feet
Show all 13
  1. Sugar Hill Hope Garden
    610 feet
  2. Carmansville Playground
    730 feet
  3. Edgecombe Park
    800 feet
  4. Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary Garden
    800 feet
  5. Jackie Robinson Park
    840 feet
  6. Highbridge Park
    890 feet
  7. Sugar Hill Garden
    930 feet
  8. Playground 149 CIL Playground
    1,070 feet
  9. Coogan's Bluff Playground
    1,240 feet
  10. Wright Brothers Playground
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Bailey House Listed historic place
    560 feet
  2. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    620 feet
  3. Hooper Fountain Monument or memorial
    790 feet
Show all 4
  1. 32nd Police Precinct Garage Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    410 feet
  2. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    680 feet
  3. Crucifixion Church House of worship
    1,030 feet
Show all 8
  1. St Luke AME Church House of worship
    1,040 feet
  2. Congregational Church of God House of worship
    1,060 feet
  3. St Catherine Genoa Church House of worship
    1,120 feet
  4. Temple Convenant House of worship
    1,160 feet
  5. Bethel Holy Church of Mount Sinai House of worship
    1,270 feet

Fire and police

  1. 30th Precinct Police station
    760 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,110 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along St Nicholas Place or West 152nd 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.