West 153rd Street & St Nicholas Place

West 153rd 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, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Sugar Hill Hope Garden is 400 feet away, and Coogan's Bluff Playground is 980 feet away. The nearest subway, 155 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 34 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
155 St
820 feet · 3 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Saint Nicholas Av/W 153 St · M3
Within a walk
34 places
10 religious buildings, 6 gardens and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 153rd Street & St Nicholas Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 155 St, 820 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 155 St C
    820 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
    0.3 miles
    A B C D
  2. 155 St B, D
    0.4 miles
    B D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Nicholas Av/W 153 St, 310 feet away, for the M3.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Nicholas Av/W 153 St M3
    310 feet
    M3

Next buses at this stop

  1. M3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Nicholas Place.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Harlem River Dr & W 155 St 24 docks in all
    610 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
    660 feet
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two 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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

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
107 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,100 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 65 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 Northeast Historic District.

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 138 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts. They were mostly built between 1892 and 1906.

  1. Wilson Major Morris Community Center Designated landmark
    480 feet
  2. William McKinley Masonic Temple (now Prince Hall Masonic Temple) Designated landmark
    660 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Broadway Housing Communities Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
  2. Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  3. P.S./I.S. 210 - Twenty-First Century Academy for Community Leadership School
    1,210 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 028 Wright Brothers School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. William A. Harris Garden
    330 feet
  2. Sugar Hill Hope Garden
    400 feet
  3. Highbridge Park
    620 feet
Show all 14
  1. Convent Garden
    610 feet
  2. Jackie Robinson Park
    660 feet
  3. Donnellan Square
    810 feet
  4. Coogan's Bluff Playground
    980 feet
  5. Carmansville Playground
    990 feet
  6. Wright Brothers Playground
    1,040 feet
  7. Edgecombe Park
    1,070 feet
  8. Edgecombe Avenue Garden Park Sanctuary Garden
    1,070 feet
  9. Family Garden - Polo Grounds Towers (NYCHA) Garden
    1,130 feet
  10. Bushman Steps Park
    1,180 feet
  11. Sugar Hill Garden
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hooper Fountain Monument or memorial
    530 feet
  2. Bailey House Listed historic place
    830 feet
  3. Sugar Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    890 feet
Show all 5
  1. John James Audubon Houses Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
  2. 32nd Police Precinct Garage Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Baptist Church House of worship
    610 feet
  2. Congregational Church of God House of worship
    930 feet
  3. Universal Hagars Spiritual Church House of worship
    940 feet
Show all 7
  1. St Luke AME Church House of worship
    1,000 feet
  2. Bethel Holy Church of Mount Sinai House of worship
    1,000 feet
  3. St Catherine Genoa Church House of worship
    1,080 feet
  4. Crucifixion Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Fire and police

  1. 30th Precinct Police station
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along St Nicholas Place or West 153rd 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.