Manhattanville-West Harlem

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Manhattanville-West Harlem spreads north from 125th Street, taking in the old Manhattanville valley and the City College campus.

  • 0.39 square miles
  • 22,183 residents, 2020 Census
  • 67 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 10 bus routes

Streets for the village of Manhattanville were laid out around 1806 in a valley known as the Hollow Way during the Revolution, and in the 1850s it became the first stop on the Hudson River Railroad's northern route. The village also had a ferry to New Jersey and small industries, among them a color works, a worsted mill and a brewery. City College moved to its Neo-Gothic campus in 1907, and Columbia University dedicated its 17-acre Manhattanville campus in 2016.

Sources: St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church (Manhattanville), Parish House, and Sunday School (LP-1981, Designation List 293, May 19, 1998) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Our History (The City College of New York); Columbia University Dedicates Its 17-Acre Manhattanville Campus, Establishing Its Academic and Civic Aspirations for a Century to Come (Columbia University).

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Manhattanville-West Harlem borders three areas, and Amsterdam Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 11 of 67.

Street map of Manhattanville-West Harlem, Manhattan, outlined among Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill, Morningside Heights and Harlem (North), with its four subway stations and St. Nicholas Park.Hamilton Heights-Sugar HillHarlem (North)Morningside Heights
  • Manhattanville-West Harlem
  • 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

  • 137 St-City College lines 1
  • 135 St lines B C
  • 125 St lines 1
  • 125 St lines A B C D accessible

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of Manhattanville-West Harlem.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx33
  • M3
  • M4
  • M5
  • M11
  • M100
  • M101
  • M104
  • M125
  • T204

Safety record

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

  • 1,119 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 16.7 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 2 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 28 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
20
Accessible pedestrian signals
8
Turn calming
4
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
4
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 2,319 school-zone speed camera tickets at five corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Broadway & West 133rd Street, 544

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 22,183 residents in Manhattanville-West Harlem, about 56,900 per square mile.

  • 8,864 homes, 2020 Census
  • 626 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 273 residential lots hold buildings from 1906 or earlier, and 93% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
35.5 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
St. Nicholas Park (22.7 acres), Jacob H. Schiff Playground (3.9 acres) and Riverside Park (3.8 acres)
Designated landmarks
St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church Sunday School, St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church Parish House and the Claremont Theater, among others

Streets and trees

Trees
2,114 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, pin oak and London planetree
Street with the most corners
Amsterdam Avenue, with 11 of the area's 67
Height above sea level
From 5 feet at West 125th Street & Marginal Street to 154 feet at Amsterdam Avenue & West 138th Street
Honorary street names
4 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists 18 schools in Manhattanville-West Harlem.

Public schools
10
Charter and private schools
8

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 12 bike-share stations stand in Manhattanville-West Harlem. The City's public art inventory lists two works in the area: Voice II (2009) and Voice IV (2009).

  • 12 bike-share stations
  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 299 major felonies at places in Manhattanville-West Harlem.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Manhattanville-West Harlem

  • 325 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,255 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Manhattanville-West Harlem, the NYPD recorded another 149 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 Manhattanville-West Harlem.

Map of Manhattanville-West Harlem: 7 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Manhattanville-West Harlem, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Manhattanville-West Harlem, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Manhattanville-West Harlem are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Manhattanville-West Harlem and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
26th (most of the area), 30th
Major felonies recorded at places in Manhattanville-West Harlem, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 161 major felonies at places in Manhattanville-West Harlem, against 144 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.