West 153rd Street & Macombs Dam Bridge Pedestrian Path

West 153rd Street and Macombs Dam Bridge Pedestrian Path meet at a three-way junction in Harlem (North), Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Harlem River Houses stands 120 feet away, and Yankee Stadium Ferry Landing is 860 feet away. The nearest subway, Harlem-148 St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, four of them playgrounds, and three places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Harlem-148 St
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Adam C Powell Blvd/W 153 St · M2
Within a walk
16 places
4 playgrounds, 3 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 153rd Street & Macombs Dam Bridge Pedestrian Path Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Harlem-148 St, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Harlem-148 St 3
    1,160 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Downtown
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. 155 St B, D
    0.3 miles
    B D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Adam C Powell Blvd/W 153 St, 40 feet away, for the M2.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Adam C Powell Blvd/W 153 St M2
    40 feet
    M2

Next buses at this stop

  1. M2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A link between bike routes runs on Macombs Dam Bridge Pedestrian Path.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Adam Clayton Powell Blvd & W 151 St 18 docks in all
    630 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. 89 St Nicholas Place Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10039
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 10
City Council district
9
Police precinct
32
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Harlem (North)
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,200 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 1929 and 1956.

Since 2014 at least 60 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 11 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1936 and 1937.

  1. Harlem River Houses Designated landmark
    120 feet
  2. Macomb's Dam Bridge (originally Central Bridge) Designated landmark
    800 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Frederick Johnson Playground.

  1. Frederick Johnson Memorial Stele by Robert W. Pugh, 1971
    720 feet
  2. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Mural Mural, 1992
    750 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Mary Walton Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    580 feet
  2. Community Life Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  3. Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. Frederick Douglass Academy School
    1,250 feet
  2. P.S. 200- the James McCune Smith School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Percy E. Sutton Playground
    40 feet
  2. Brigadier General Charles Young Triangle
    120 feet
  3. Frederick Johnson Playground
    660 feet
Show all 7
  1. Holcombe Rucker Park
    800 feet
  2. Bill Bojangles Robinson Playground
    820 feet
  3. Rucker Park Playground
    1,150 feet
  4. Frederick Douglass Boulevard Community Garden
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Macomb's Bridge Library
    790 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Matthews Baptist Church House of worship
    1,020 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Colonial Park Post Office
    490 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other places

  1. Yankee Stadium Ferry Landing
    860 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and six food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Macombs Dam Bridge Pedestrian Path or West 153rd Street.

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