West 59th Street & Riverside Boulevard

West 59th Street and Riverside Boulevard meet at a three-way junction in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The light installation “Neon for the 59th Street Marine Transfer Station” is 240 feet away. The nearest bus stop, West End Av/W 59 St, is 940 feet away for the M57, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Henry Hudson Parkway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
West End Av/W 59 St · M57
Within a walk
11 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 59th Street & Riverside Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is West End Av/W 59 St, 940 feet away, for the M57.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. West End Av/W 59 St M57
    940 feet
    M57

Next buses at this stop

  1. M57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 11 Ave & W 59 St 32 docks in all
    930 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 11th Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 10 Riverside Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    250 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 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 November 2017.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10019
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6
Police precinct
18 and 20 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side-Lincoln Square
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 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 2013 and 2016.

Since 2014 at least 467 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12 Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 12 Avenue

  • No standing 12 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 59th Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 59th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Bus layover only 3 signs NON-MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as French Neoclassical, and built between 1902 and 1905.

  1. Interborough Rapid Transit Company Powerhouse Designated landmark
    350 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at 59th Street Marine Transfer Station.

  1. Neon for the 59th Street Marine Transfer Station Light installation by Stephen Antonakos, 1990
    240 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 public space

Schools and child care

  1. Star a Kidz M Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    680 feet
  2. Hopscotch Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    850 feet
  3. Collegiate School
    1,010 feet
Show all 8
  1. The Riverside School for Makers and Artists School
    1,030 feet
  2. Children's Center of John Jay College of Criminal Justice Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,050 feet
  3. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,150 feet
  4. La Maternelle II Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,300 feet
  5. CUNY John Jay Col Crim Justice College
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park South Park
    130 feet
  2. Hudson River Park
    300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Riverside Center Public space
    520 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,000 feet
  2. Brooklyn Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Riverside Boulevard or West 59th Street.

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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.