West 155th Street & West 155th Street Pedestrian Underpass

West 155th Street and West 155th Street Pedestrian Underpass meet at a three-way junction in Washington Heights (South), Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Audubon Terrace Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Hispanic Society of America Library stands 350 feet away, and North Presbyterian Church is 460 feet away. The nearest subway, 157 St, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
157 St
590 feet · 2 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
W 155 St/Broadway · Bx6
Within a walk
22 places
9 religious buildings, 3 listed historic places and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 155th Street & West 155th Street Pedestrian Underpass Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 157 St, 590 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 157 St 1
    590 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 155 St C
    0.3 miles
    C
  2. 163 St-Amsterdam Av C
    0.5 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 155 St/Broadway, 100 feet away, for the Bx6.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 155 St/Broadway Bx6
    100 feet
    Bx6

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx6 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & W 157 St 31 docks in all
    580 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Harlem River Drive northbound at Frederick Douglass Boulevard, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3740 Broadway Gas station
    250 feet
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2017.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2013

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10032
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 9
City Council district
7 and 10 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
30 and 33 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (South)
Elevation
118 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,600 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 1909 and 1925.

Since 2014 at least 144 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 106 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 63 signs on these blocks
  • 20 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of West 155th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 112456 and 114992.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Audubon Terrace Historic District.

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 21 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1909 and 1914.

  1. Museum of the American Indian Designated landmark
    130 feet
  2. American Geographical Society Designated landmark
    240 feet
  3. Hispanic Society of America Library Designated landmark
    350 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 museums
  • 2 schools
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Boricua College
    390 feet
  2. Kids-Centric, Inc Northern Manhattan School
    450 feet
  3. Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet
Show all 5
  1. Urban Concepts of New York Round the Clock Nursery Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    850 feet
  2. P.S. 028 Wright Brothers School
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Wright Brothers Playground
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hispanic Society of America Museum · landmark · listed historic place
    350 feet
  2. Chapel of the Intercession Complex and Trinity Cemetery Listed historic place
    360 feet
  3. Museum of the American Indian Museum
    600 feet
Show all 5
  1. Audubon Park Historic District Listed historic place
    950 feet
  2. John James Audubon Houses Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. American Academy of Arts & Letters Arts or cultural center
    550 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of the Intercession Landmark
    230 feet
  2. North Presbyterian Church Listed historic place
    460 feet
  3. Our Lady of Esperanza Church House of worship
    620 feet
Show all 8
  1. Greater File Chapel Baptist Church House of worship
    790 feet
  2. New Covenant Holiness Church House of worship
    990 feet
  3. Russian Holy Fathers Church House of worship
    1,040 feet
  4. Jehovahs Witness Broadway House of worship
    1,180 feet
  5. Paradise Baptist Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Fort Washington Post Office
    800 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    860 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Extra Jumbo by Associated Supermarket
    700 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along West 155th Street or West 155th Street Pedestrian Underpass.

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