West Drive & Central Park Entrance Powell Boulevard

West Drive and Central Park Entrance Powell Boulevard meet at a three-way junction in Central Park, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Blockhouse in Central Park is 240 feet away, and Malcolm X Plaza is 1,280 feet away. The nearest subway, 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them schools, and four places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
110 St-Malcolm X Plaza
1,080 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Central Park North/Adam C Powell Blvd · M2, M3, M4
Within a walk
12 places
4 schools, 2 park features and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West Drive & Central Park Entrance Powell Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza, 1,080 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza 2, 3
    1,080 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) B, C
    1,080 feet
    B C
  2. 103 St B, C
    0.4 miles
    B C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Message from Malcolm” (1998) by Maren Hassinger at the 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Central Park North/Adam C Powell Blvd, 310 feet away, for the M2, M3 and M4.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Central Park North/Adam C Powell Blvd M2, M3, M4
    310 feet
    M2 M3 M4

Next buses at this stop

  1. M2 …
  2. M3 …
  3. M4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Central Park Entrance Powell Boulevard and West Drive.

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Central Park North & Adam Clayton Powell Blvd 36 docks in all
    210 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    1.6 miles
  2. 4 West 93rd Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.2 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
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • 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 1900 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Frederick Douglass Circle.

  1. Frederick Douglass Memorial Decorative paving by Algernon Miller, 2011
    780 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Memorial Statue by Gabriel Koren, 2011
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

This corner stands inside Central Park.

Schools and child care

  1. Harlem Link Charter School-Annex School
    790 feet
  2. Opportunity Charter School
    1,300 feet
  3. STEM Institute of Manhattan School
    1,300 feet
Show all 4
  1. Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 4 School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Central Park Listed historic place
    surrounds this corner
  2. Blockhouse in Central Park Park feature
    240 feet
  3. West 110th Street Playground
    360 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Great Hill in Central Park Park feature
    900 feet
  2. Electric Ladybug Garden
    1,010 feet
  3. East 110th Street Playground
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Malcolm X Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Southern Baptist Church House of worship
    1,270 feet
  2. Mount Neboh Baptist Church Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Central Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here 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 Central Park Entrance Powell Boulevard or West Drive.

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