West End Avenue & West 99th Street

West End Avenue and West 99th 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. Hotel Paris; Paris Apartments stands 620 feet away, and P.S. 075 Emily Dickinson is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, 96 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 1, 2 and 3. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 32 places to eat.

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West End Avenue & West 99th Street Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is 96 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 96 St 1, 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    1 2 3

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
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  2. 2 …
  3. 3 …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
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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 Broadway/W 99 St, 550 feet away, for the M104.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/W 99 St M104
    550 feet
    M104

Next buses at this stop

  1. M104 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 36 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
    580 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Henry Hudson Parkway northbound at Riverside Drive & West 96th Street, 1,300 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 303 West 96th Street Gas station
    1,110 feet
  2. 303 West 96th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,120 feet

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2024.

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
90 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 1909 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 72 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
  • 6 different rules

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

North side of West 99th Street

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

South side of West 99th Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 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

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 three Individual Landmarks, and 153 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1896 and 1909.

  1. Midtown Theater (now Metro Theater) Designated landmark
    610 feet
  2. Hotel Paris; Paris Apartments Designated landmark
    620 feet
  3. Parish House of St. Michael's Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    650 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
    680 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Morningside Montessori School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    330 feet
  2. Yaldaynu Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    330 feet
  3. La Escuelita Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    700 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
  2. P.S. 075 Emily Dickinson School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Riverside Park Listed historic place
    550 feet
  2. Happy Warrior Playground
    970 feet
  3. Dinosaur Playground
    1,000 feet
Show all 5
  1. Frederick Douglass Playground
    1,240 feet
  2. Terrace Promenade in Riverside Park Park feature
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. St. Michael's Church Complex Listed historic place
    780 feet
  2. Row Houses at 854-858 West End Avenue and 254 West 102nd Street Listed historic place
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ansche Chesed Synagogue Landmark
    330 feet
  2. St Michaels Episcopal Church House of worship
    810 feet
  3. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,080 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,250 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

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

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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.