West End Avenue & West 101st Street

West End Avenue and West 101st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Riverside Park is 540 feet away. The nearest subway, 103 St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and 31 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
103 St
950 feet · 4 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
700 feet
Broadway/W 100 St · M104
Within a walk
17 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 3 listed historic places and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West End Avenue & West 101st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 103 St, 950 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 103 St 1
    950 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. 96 St 1, 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    1 2 3
  2. Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) 1
    0.5 miles
    1

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 100 St, 700 feet away, for the M104.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 100 St M104 · Shelter
    700 feet
    M104
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on West End Avenue.

  • 51 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 100 St & Broadway 39 docks in all
    580 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 204 West 101st Street Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10025
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
7
Police precinct
24
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley
Elevation
101 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 6,500 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 1910 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of West 101st Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 101st Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of West End Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of West End Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and 184 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1892 and 1909.

  1. Alexandria House Designated landmark
    480 feet
  2. Marseilles Hotel Designated landmark
    540 feet
  3. Master Building Designated landmark
    710 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Firemen's Memorial Sarcophagus by Attilio Piccirilli, 1913
    690 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Morningside Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    230 feet
  2. Yaldaynu Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    230 feet
  3. Purple Circle Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care
    890 feet
Show all 6
  1. La Escuelita Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet
  2. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet
  3. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    540 feet
  2. Frederick Douglass Playground
    950 feet
  3. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    1,130 feet
Show all 4
  1. Happy Warrior Playground
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Row Houses at 854-858 West End Avenue and 254 West 102nd Street Listed historic place
    290 feet
  2. Masters Building Listed historic place
    1,000 feet
  3. St. Michael's Church Complex Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ansche Chesed Synagogue Landmark
    230 feet
  2. St Michaels Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,110 feet
  3. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Frederick Douglass Playground Mini Pool Swimming pool
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,090 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. H Mart Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    730 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    960 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along West 101st Street or West End Avenue.

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