West 173rd Street & Haven Avenue

West 173rd Street and Haven Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Washington Heights (South), Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. J. Hood Wright Park is 40 feet away, and P.S./I.S. 173 Fort Washington School in the Heights is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, 175 St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and four places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
175 St
1,040 feet · 4 min on foot · A
Nearest bus stop
820 feet
Fort Washington Av/W 173 St · M4
Within a walk
9 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 1 dog run and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 173rd Street & Haven Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 175 St, 1,040 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 175 St A
    1,040 feet
    A

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 168 St-Washington Hts 1, A, C
    0.4 miles
    1 A C
  2. 181 St A
    0.5 miles
    A

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Fort Washington Av/W 173 St, 820 feet away, for the M4.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fort Washington Av/W 173 St M4
    820 feet
    M4

Next buses at this stop

  1. M4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Haven Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fort Washington Ave & W 173 St 24 docks in all
    720 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Bronx Expressway northbound at Fort Washington Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4116 Broadway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 115 Fort Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes 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 December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10032
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
33
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Washington Heights (South)
Elevation
182 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 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 1920 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 101 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Siberian elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2013 and October 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Haven Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of West 173rd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 173rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in J. Hood Wright Park.

  1. 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece Sculpture by Terry Fugate-Wilcox, 1974
    370 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 recreation center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./I.S. 173 Fort Washington School in the Heights School
    910 feet
  2. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care · Pre-K
    980 feet
  3. The Medical Center Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. Divino Nino 175th St 3k for All Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. J. Hood Wright Park
    40 feet
  2. Dog Run in J. Hood Wright Park Dog run
    160 feet
  3. J Hood Wright Park Playground
    580 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Broadway Temple Washington Heights United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,070 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. J Hood Wright Recreation Center
    580 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Haven Avenue or West 173rd 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.