Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley lies at the northern end of the Upper West Side, south of 110th Street, between Central Park and the Hudson River.

  • 0.47 square miles
  • 51,751 residents, 2020 Census
  • 77 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 11 bus routes

Manhattan Valley occupies a natural dip in the land, called Clendening Valley after a local farm until the 1880s, and the Croton Aqueduct crossed it on an elevated structure built from 1838 to 1842. Homes followed the Ninth Avenue elevated railroad and, in 1904, the IRT subway. On Central Park West at 106th Street, Charles Coolidge Haight's chateau-style New York Cancer Hospital of the 1880s was the first hospital in the United States devoted only to cancer patients.

Sources: Manhattan Valley (Wikipedia); The Towers Nursing Home, originally the New York Cancer Hospital (LP-0938, August 17, 1976) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Upper West Side (Wikipedia).

Map

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Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley borders four areas, and Broadway holds more of its corners than any other street, 13 of 77.

Street map of Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, Manhattan, outlined among Upper West Side (Central), Morningside Heights, Central Park and Harlem (South), with its four subway stations and Riverside Park.Morningside HeightsHarlem (South)Central ParkUpper West Side (Central)
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  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) lines 1
  • Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) lines B C
  • 103 St lines 1
  • 103 St lines B C

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 11 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M3
  • M4
  • M5
  • M7
  • M10
  • M11
  • M60-SBS
  • M96
  • M104
  • M106
  • M116

Safety record

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

  • 842 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 10.9 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 61 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
40
Accessible pedestrian signals
23
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
16
Enhanced crossings
4
Turn calming
2
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
  • 11,943 school-zone speed camera tickets at three corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 51,751 residents in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, about 110,100 per square mile.

  • 26,533 homes, 2020 Census
  • 474 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 799 residential lots hold buildings from 1910 or earlier, and 91% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Douglass Addition, Douglass I, Douglass II and Rehab Program (Douglass Rehabs) developments lie wholly or partly within Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, as does one more that NYCHA names by a building's address.

Douglass Addition
Within Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley
Douglass I
Within Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley
Douglass II
Within Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley
Rehab Program (Douglass Rehabs)
Within Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley; privately managed

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
57.3 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Riverside Park (50.8 acres), Frederick Douglass Playground (1.9 acres) and Happy Warrior Playground (1.5 acres)
Designated landmarks
The New-York Cancer Hospital, the Horn & Hardart Automat-Cafeteria, the Marseilles Hotel and the Association Residence for Respectable Aged Indigent Females, among others
Historic districts
Manhattan Avenue and Riverside-West 105th Street, wholly or partly within Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley

Streets and trees

Trees
3,447 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Broadway, with 13 of the area's 77
Height above sea level
From 51 feet at Riverside Drive & West 98th Street to 116 feet at Columbus Avenue & West 104th Street
Honorary street names
7 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists eight schools and one library in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley.

Public schools
6
Charter and private schools
2
Library
Bloomingdale Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 11 bike-share stations stand in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley. The City's public art inventory lists four works in the area, among them General Franz Sigel (1907), Firemen's Memorial (1913) and Isidor and Ida Straus (1915).

  • 11 bike-share stations
  • 4 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 490 major felonies at places in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley

  • 442 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,036 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, the NYPD recorded another 84 major felonies.

Police precinct
24th
Major felonies recorded at places in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 247 major felonies at places in Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley, against 238 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.