West End Avenue & West 98th Street

West End Avenue and West 98th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Riverside Park is 450 feet away, and Holy Name of Jesus Church is 1,070 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 1, 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 29 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
96 St
1,140 feet · 4 min on foot · 1, 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
W 97 St/West End Av · M96, M106
Within a walk
18 places
5 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West End Avenue & West 98th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 1,140 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 96 St 1, 2, 3
    1,140 feet
    1 2 3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 103 St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bloemendaal” (2010) by Masamichi Udagawa & Sigi Moeslinger at the 96 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 97 St/West End Av, 340 feet away, for the M96 and M106.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 97 St/West End Av M96, M106
    340 feet
    M96 M106

Next buses at this stop

  1. M96 …
  2. M106 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 33 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 1,040 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    850 feet
  2. 303 West 96th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    850 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    3 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 June 2026.

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
78 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 6,000 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 1928.

Since 2014 at least 68 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2020 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of West 98th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of West 98th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of West End Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of West End Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 116 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1898 and 1911.

  1. Hotel Paris; Paris Apartments Designated landmark
    370 feet
  2. Cliff Dwelling; (or) Cliff Dweller Designated landmark
    650 feet
  3. Midtown Theater (now Metro Theater) Designated landmark
    700 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
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Morningside Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    590 feet
  2. Yaldaynu Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    590 feet
  3. P.S. 075 Emily Dickinson School · landmark
    850 feet
Show all 6
  1. La Escuelita Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    960 feet
  2. P.S. 163 Alfred E. Smith School
    1,200 feet
  3. Tamim Academy of NYC School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. Dinosaur Playground
    900 feet
  3. Happy Warrior Playground
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. St. Michael's Church Complex Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  2. Row Houses at 854-858 West End Avenue and 254 West 102nd Street Listed historic place
    1,070 feet
  3. Pomander Walk District Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Symphony Space Theatre Theater or concert hall
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ansche Chesed Synagogue Landmark
    590 feet
  2. Holy Name of Jesus Church House of worship
    1,070 feet
  3. St Michaels Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,070 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    820 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,050 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along West 98th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.