West End Avenue & West 61st Drive

West End Avenue and West 61st Drive meet at a three-way junction in Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's Amsterdam development. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. West End Secondary School is 420 feet away. The nearest bus stop, West End Av/W 61 St, is 170 feet away for the M57, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, ten of them day care or pre-K sites, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Henry Hudson Parkway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
West End Av/W 61 St · M57
Within a walk
27 places
10 day care or pre-K sites, 7 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West End Avenue & West 61st Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is West End Av/W 61 St, 170 feet away, for the M57.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. West End Av/W 61 St M57
    170 feet
    M57

Next buses at this stop

  1. M57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. West End Ave & W 60 St 39 docks in all
    440 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 720 11th Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 161 West 61st Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 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
10023
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6
Police precinct
20
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side-Lincoln Square

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 7,300 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 1977 and 2013.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Amsterdam development.

Since 2014 at least 327 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the serviceberry.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 10 day care or pre-K sites
  • 7 schools
  • 3 public spaces
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    340 feet
  2. Abraham Joshua Heschel School
    380 feet
  3. Adapt Community Network Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    400 feet
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  1. West End Secondary School
    420 feet
  2. The Riverside School for Makers and Artists School
    440 feet
  3. Ucp of NYC - Manhattan Child Program School
    540 feet
  4. Gateway School of NY School
    740 feet
  5. Collegiate School
    750 feet
  6. Bright Horizons at West 63rd Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    760 feet
  7. Star a Kidz M Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    810 feet
  8. Congregation Habonim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  9. Metrokids Cradle (South End) Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    810 feet
  10. Children's Center of John Jay College of Criminal Justice Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    870 feet
  11. P.S. 452 School
    920 feet
  12. Goddard Riverside Community Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
  13. CUNY John Jay Col Crim Justice College
    1,140 feet
  14. Amsterdam Child care
    1,250 feet
  15. La Maternelle II Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Samuel N. Bennerson 2nd Playground
    740 feet
  2. Gertrude Ederle Playground
    970 feet
  3. Damrosch Park
    1,270 feet
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  1. Lincoln Center Plaza
    1,270 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at West End Towers Public space
    380 feet
  2. Public space at Riverside Center Public space
    950 feet
  3. Public space at BMW Public space
    1,250 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gertrude Ederle Pool Swimming pool
    770 feet
  2. Older adult center at 250 West 65th Street Older adult center
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Brooklyn Fare Supermarket
    210 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    560 feet
  3. Gourmet Garage Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. The Shops at Columbus Circle Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along West End Avenue.

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