West End Avenue & West 77th Street

West End Avenue and West 77th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side (Central), Manhattan. The corner is also named Miles Davis Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the West End - Collegiate Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. West End Collegiate Church is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, 79 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places and 38 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
79 St
910 feet · 3 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
Broadway/W 77 St · M104
Within a walk
22 places
7 religious buildings, 4 listed historic places and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West End Avenue & West 77th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 79 St, 910 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 79 St 1
    910 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 72 St 1, 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    1 2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/W 77 St, 540 feet away, for the M104.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 77 St M104 · Shelter
    540 feet
    M104
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on West 77th Street and West End Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 78 St & Broadway 39 docks in all
    500 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 79th Street, 1,020 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 300 West End Avenue Charging for electric cars, 14 Level 2 chargers
    830 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2017
  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10024
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6
Police precinct
20
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side (Central)
Elevation
83 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Miles Davis Way, a co-naming enacted on December 17, 2013 (Local Law 131 of 2013).

The streets

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

Homes

About 5,300 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 1930.

Trees

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

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Miles Davis Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and January 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of West 77th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of West 77th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of West End Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of West End Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the West End - Collegiate Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 216 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1891 and 1899.

  1. The Collegiate School, Platten Hall Designated landmark
    230 feet
  2. Belleclaire Hotel Designated landmark
    320 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Robert Ray Hamilton Fountain Fountain, 1906
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Manhattan Day School
    840 feet
  2. Calhoun School
    1,110 feet
  3. Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet
Show all 4
  1. 2109 Broadway Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. South Lawn in Riverside Park Park feature
    590 feet
  2. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    610 feet
  3. Neufeld Playground
    680 feet
Show all 4
  1. Tecumseh Playground
    950 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Gloucester Public space
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Apthorp Apartments Listed historic place
    570 feet
  2. 79th Street Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    920 feet
  3. Riverside Drive-West 80th-81st Streets Historic District Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
Show all 4
  1. Level Club Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Beacon Theatre Theater or concert hall · listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. West End Collegiate Church Landmark · listed historic place
    100 feet
  2. Carlebach Shul Landmark
    660 feet
  3. Christian Community Church House of worship
    800 feet
Show all 5
  1. First Baptist Church Landmark
    820 feet
  2. All Angels Church House of worship
    930 feet

Fire and police

  1. Division 3/Ladder 25 Fire station
    780 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    690 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,170 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fairway Market Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. Zabar's Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    510 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,230 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along West 77th 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, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.