West End Avenue & West 88th Street

West End Avenue and West 88th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side (Central), Manhattan. The corner is also named Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill Place by local law. It lies inside the Riverside-West End Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Congregation B'nai Jeshurun Community House stands 270 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places and 29 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
630 feet · 2 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
W 87 St/West End Av · M86 SBS
Within a walk
24 places
8 religious buildings, 5 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West End Avenue & West 88th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 630 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 86 St 1
    630 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
    0.3 miles
    1 2 3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Westside Views” (1989) by Nitza Tufiño (in collaboration with Grosvenor Neighborhood House Student Muralists) at the 86 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 87 St/West End Av, 290 feet away, for the M86 SBS.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 87 St/West End Av M86 SBS
    290 feet
    M86 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M86 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 87 St & West End Ave 47 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 160 West 84th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10024
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 7
City Council district
6
Police precinct
24
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Upper West Side (Central)
Elevation
77 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill Place, a co-naming enacted on December 21, 2004 (Local Law 63 of 2004).

The streets

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

Homes

About 6,200 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 1912 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 76 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of West 88th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of West 88th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of West End Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of West End Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Riverside-West End Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 241 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1891 and 1903.

  1. Congregation B'nai Jeshurun Community House Designated landmark
    270 feet
  2. St. Ignatius Protestant Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    350 feet
  3. St. Agatha's School for Girls Designated landmark
    360 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 dog run
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Beit Rabban Day School
    490 feet
  2. Ideal School of Manhattan - Upper School
    490 feet
  3. Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan School
    810 feet
Show all 7
  1. Ideal School and Academy School
    990 feet
  2. The West Side Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet
  3. Calhoun School (The) School
    1,180 feet
  4. Vivvi 15 Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    820 feet
  2. Serpentine Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    900 feet
  3. Dog Run W 87 St in Riverside Park Dog run
    1,150 feet

Health care

  1. The Riverside Nursing home or hospice
    860 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun and Community House Listed historic place
    300 feet
  2. United Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew Complex Listed historic place
    550 feet
  3. Isaac L. Rice Mansion Listed historic place
    820 feet
Show all 5
  1. Belnord Apartments Listed historic place
    980 feet
  2. Soldiers & Sailors Monument Monument or memorial
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Bnai Jeshurun Landmark
    190 feet
  2. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    750 feet
  3. Congregation Heichal Moshe House of worship
    870 feet
Show all 5
  1. Congregation Ohav Sholom House of worship
    1,180 feet
  2. West Park Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    560 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    690 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    450 feet
  2. Zabar's Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along West 88th 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.