West Drive & Central Park Bow Bridge Path

West Drive and Central Park Bow Bridge Path meet at a three-way junction in Central Park, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The bust “Alexander von Humboldt” is 390 feet away, and Ramble in Central Park is 680 feet away. The nearest subway, 81 St-Museum of Natural History, is about four minutes on foot, for the B and C. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, ten of them park features, and two places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along West Drive.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
81 St-Museum of Natural History
1,100 feet · 4 min on foot · B, C
Nearest bus stop
780 feet
Central Park West/W 77 St · M10
Within a walk
15 places
10 park features, 2 museums and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West Drive & Central Park Bow Bridge Path Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 81 St-Museum of Natural History, 1,100 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 81 St-Museum of Natural History B, C
    1,100 feet
    B C

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. C …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. 72 St B, C
    0.3 miles
    B C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “For Want of a Nail” (2000) by MTA Arts & Design Collaborative at the 81 St-Museum of Natural History station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Central Park West/W 77 St, 780 feet away, for the M10.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Central Park West/W 77 St M10
    780 feet
    M10

Next buses at this stop

  1. M10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on West Drive.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Central Park W & W 76 St 39 docks in all
    800 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 11th Avenue Gas station
    1.9 miles
  2. 60 West 66th Street Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10000
City Council district
6
Police precinct
22
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Central Park

The streets

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

Homes

About 300 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 1900 and 1928.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 23 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Modified French Renaissance and Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1893 and 1900.

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Alexander von Humboldt Bust by Gustav Bläser, 1869
    390 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 park features
  • 2 museums
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

This corner stands inside Central Park.

Schools and child care

  1. Park Children's Day School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    640 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    surrounds this corner
  2. Ladies Pavillion in Central Park Park feature
    430 feet
  3. Hernshead in Central Park Park feature
    470 feet
Show all 11
  1. Ramble in Central Park Park feature
    680 feet
  2. Shakespeare Gardens in Central Park Park feature
    900 feet
  3. Ross Pinetum in Central Park Park feature
    1,010 feet
  4. Belvedere Castle in Central Park Park feature
    1,150 feet
  5. Romeo and Juliet Sculpture in Central Park Park feature
    1,180 feet
  6. Belvedere Lake in Central Park Park feature
    1,180 feet
  7. Delacorte Theater in Central Park Park feature
    1,190 feet
  8. Tempest Sculpture in Central Park Park feature
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. New-York Historical Society Museum · landmark
    1,000 feet
  2. American Museum of Natural History Museum · landmark · listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. 4th Universalist Society Church Landmark
    640 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Pioneer Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along West Drive.

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