West 215th Street & Indian Road

West 215th Street and Indian Road meet at a three-way junction in Inwood, Manhattan, at the edge of Inwood Hill Park. The corner is also named Joseph F. Holland Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Isham Park is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, 215 St, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, five of them park features, and one place to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
215 St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
1,320 feet
Broadway/W 215 St · Bx7, Bx20
Within a walk
13 places
5 park features, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 215th Street & Indian Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 215 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 215 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

Next trains at this station

The Bronx
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. Inwood-207 St A
    0.4 miles
    A

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 215 St, 1,320 feet away, for the Bx7 and Bx20.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 215 St Bx7, Bx20 · Shelter
    1,320 feet
    Bx7 Bx20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …
  2. Bx20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 218 St & Indian Rd 21 docks in all
    420 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & Henry Hudson Parkway at Staff Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5080 Broadway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 296 West Fordham Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

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 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10034
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 12
City Council district
10
Police precinct
34
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Inwood; the corner is on the edge of the Inwood Hill Park area
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Joseph F. Holland Way, a co-naming enacted on May 23, 2006 (Local Law 13 of 2006).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,600 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 1926 and 1939.

Trees

NYC Parks records 108 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the hawthorn.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Joseph F. Holland Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2013 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Indian Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 215th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 215th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Eleven buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1921 and 1925.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 park features
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 playground
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Amber Charter School Inwood School
    930 feet
  2. International Resource for Parenting Trade or language school
    930 feet
  3. School in the Square Ecc School
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Isham Park
    30 feet
  2. Indian Road Playground
    140 feet
  3. Pats Lawn in Inwood Hill Park Park feature
    390 feet
Show all 9
  1. Inwood Hill Park
    410 feet
  2. Homers Dog Run in Inwood Hill Park Dog run
    730 feet
  3. Nature Center in Inwood Hill Park Park feature
    1,020 feet
  4. Marsh Habitat in Inwood Hill Park Park feature
    1,130 feet
  5. Boulders South Lawn in Isham Park Park feature
    1,190 feet
  6. 9 11 Memorial Rock in Isham Park Park feature
    1,220 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Muscota Marsh Public space
    430 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Indian Road or West 215th Street.

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