Harlem (South)

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Harlem (South) fills the southern half of Central Harlem, from Central Park North at 110th Street up to 125th Street, east of Morningside Park and St. Nicholas Avenue.

  • 0.52 square miles
  • 47,113 residents, 2020 Census
  • 89 street corners
  • 6 subway stations
  • 15 bus routes

The name goes back to Nieuw Haarlem, a settlement Peter Stuyvesant established in 1658, named after Haarlem in the Netherlands, and speculative building beside Mount Morris Park began in 1878. By World War I much of Harlem was a Black residential and business district, and after the war it became the center of the Harlem Renaissance. The Apollo Theater opened on 125th Street in 1934, and the Mount Morris Park Historic District was designated in 1971.

Sources: Harlem (Wikipedia); Harlem (Encyclopaedia Britannica); Mount Morris Park Historic District Designation Report (LP-0452) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Apollo History (Apollo Theater).

Map

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Harlem (South) borders six areas, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard holds more of its corners than any other street, 18 of 89.

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  • Harlem (South)
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 125 St lines A B C D accessible
  • 125 St lines 2 3
  • 116 St lines B C
  • 116 St lines 2 3
  • Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) lines B C
  • 110 St-Malcolm X Plaza lines 2 3

Getting around

Six subway stations and buses on 15 routes stop in or at the edge of Harlem (South).

  • 6 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 12 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M1
  • M2
  • M3
  • M4
  • M7
  • M10
  • M60-SBS
  • M100
  • M101
  • M102
  • M116
  • M125

Express bus routes

  • BxM2
  • BxM3
  • BxM4

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 1,535 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 17.2 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 65 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
56
Accessible pedestrian signals
17
Turn calming
6
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
5
Safety Improvement Projects
3

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more bus-lane camera tickets than school-zone speed or red-light tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 2,345 school-zone speed camera tickets at five corners
  • 6,376 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 47,113 residents in Harlem (South), about 90,600 per square mile.

  • 22,076 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,346 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,650 residential lots hold buildings from 1901 or earlier, and 89% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's King Towers development lies wholly or partly within Harlem (South).

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
2.1 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest piece
Martin Luther King, Jr. Playground (1.1 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Mount Olive Fire Baptized Holiness Church, the Hotel Cecil & Minton's Playhouse, the Graham Court Apartments and the New York Public Library's 115th Street Branch, among others
Historic district
Mount Morris Park Historic District, wholly or partly within Harlem (South)

Streets and trees

Trees
2,715 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, Callery pear and London planetree
Street with the most corners
Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, with 18 of the area's 89
Height above sea level
From 16 feet at Central Park North & Frawley Circle to 52 feet at Cathedral Parkway & Frederick Douglass Circle
Honorary street names
23 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 24 schools and two libraries in Harlem (South).

Public schools
9
Charter and private schools
15
Libraries
Harlem Library and Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 13 bike-share stations stand in Harlem (South). The City's public art inventory lists three works in the area: Brigadier General Winfield Scott Hancock (1891), Lafayette and Washington (1900) and Harriet Tubman Memorial (2008).

  • 13 bike-share stations
  • 3 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 728 major felonies at places in Harlem (South).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Harlem (South)

  • 880 major felonies in 2024 152 fewer in 2025
  • 3,555 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Harlem (South), the NYPD recorded another 224 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 20.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Harlem (South).

Police precinct
28th
Major felonies recorded at places in Harlem (South), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 308 major felonies at places in Harlem (South), against 323 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.