West 215th Street & Park Terrace West

West 215th Street and Park Terrace West meet at a four-way crossing in Inwood, Manhattan. The corner is also named Jimmy McAlary Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Amber Charter School Inwood is 280 feet away. The nearest subway, 215 St, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, four of them park features, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
215 St
1,070 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
670 feet
Broadway/W 215 St · Bx7, Bx20
Within a walk
16 places
4 park features, 4 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 215th Street & Park Terrace West Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 215 St, 1,070 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 215 St 1
    1,070 feet
    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
    0.3 miles
    A

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 215 St, 670 feet away, for the Bx7 and Bx20.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Bx7 …
  2. Bx20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 218 St & Indian Rd 21 docks in all
    1,070 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
    0.3 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 four 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 August 2024.

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
Elevation
83 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jimmy McAlary Way, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,700 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 122 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jimmy McAlary Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 42 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2022 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Park Terrace West

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

West side of Park Terrace West

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of West 215th Street

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

South side of West 215th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 27 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Tudor Revival, and mostly built between 1923 and 1934.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 park features
  • 4 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 dog run
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Amber Charter School Inwood School
    280 feet
  2. International Resource for Parenting Trade or language school
    280 feet
  3. School in the Square Ecc School
    400 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd New York City School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  2. Good Shepherd School
    1,200 feet
  3. School in the Square Elementary School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Isham Park
    130 feet
  2. Indian Road Playground
    720 feet
  3. 9 11 Memorial Rock in Isham Park Park feature
    730 feet
Show all 8
  1. Boulders South Lawn in Isham Park Park feature
    750 feet
  2. Pats Lawn in Inwood Hill Park Park feature
    1,030 feet
  3. Inwood Hill Park
    1,060 feet
  4. Ginko Tree & Stairs in Isham Park Park feature
    1,110 feet
  5. Homers Dog Run in Inwood Hill Park Dog run
    1,210 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Muscota Marsh Public space
    670 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Good Shepherd Church Broadway House of worship
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Park Terrace West 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.