Washington Heights (North)

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Washington Heights (North) takes up the northern part of Washington Heights, from about 177th Street west of Broadway and 180th Street east of it up to Dyckman Street.

  • 0.89 square miles
  • 71,842 residents, 2020 Census
  • 166 street corners
  • 6 subway stations
  • 13 bus routes

Bennett Park occupies Manhattan's highest point of land, 265.05 feet above sea level, where paving traces part of Fort Washington, built in 1776 and seized by British and Hessian troops that November. The George Washington Bridge, built from 1927 to 1931, crosses the Hudson from here, and Fort Tryon Park, given to the City in 1931 and landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., is home to the Cloisters, which opened in 1938 to display medieval art.

Sources: Washington Heights, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Bennett Park (NYC Parks); Fort Tryon Park (NYC Parks); George Washington Bridge (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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Washington Heights (North) borders four areas, and Broadway holds more of its corners than any other street, 23 of 166.

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  • Washington Heights (North)
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • 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

  • Dyckman St lines A
  • Dyckman St lines 1 accessible
  • 190 St lines A
  • 191 St lines 1
  • 181 St lines A accessible
  • 181 St lines 1

Getting around

Six subway stations and buses on 13 routes stop in or at the edge of Washington Heights (North).

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

Local bus routes

  • Bx3
  • Bx7
  • Bx11
  • Bx13
  • Bx35
  • Bx36
  • M3
  • M4
  • M5
  • M98
  • M100
  • M101

Express bus route

  • BxM1

Safety record

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

  • 2,193 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 13.2 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 13 corners with a clean record

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

Leading pedestrian intervals
44
Accessible pedestrian signals
21
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
8
Turn calming
6
Enhanced crossings
1
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 2,101 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 5,371 school-zone speed camera tickets at five corners
  • 24,362 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners
Most red-light tickets
Broadway & Sherman Avenue, 2,101
Most speed tickets
Broadway & West 196th Street, 2,941
Most bus-lane tickets
Wadsworth Avenue & West 181st Street, 15,808

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 71,842 residents in Washington Heights (North), about 80,700 per square mile.

  • 30,550 homes, 2020 Census
  • 718 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 713 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 87% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
124.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Fort Tryon Park (67.2 acres), Fort Washington Park (49.2 acres) and Bennett Rest (4.1 acres)
Designated landmark
The Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Streets and trees

Trees
4,300 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, pin oak and northern red oak
Street with the most corners
Broadway, with 23 of the area's 166
Height above sea level
From 9 feet at Dyckman Street & Henry Hudson Parkway to 257 feet at Pinehurst Avenue & West 185th Street
Honorary street names
18 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists 26 schools in Washington Heights (North).

Public schools
16
Charter and private schools
10

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 22 bike-share stations stand in Washington Heights (North). The City's public art inventory lists three works in the area: Fort Tryon Memorial (1904), Gertie A. Gorman Memorial (1929) and Columnade (1973).

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

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 729 major felonies at places in Washington Heights (North).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Washington Heights (North)

  • 769 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,888 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Washington Heights (North), the NYPD recorded another 212 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 13.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Washington Heights (North).

Map of Washington Heights (North): 11 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 Washington Heights (North), 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 Washington Heights (North), 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 Washington Heights (North) 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 Washington Heights (North) and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
34th (most of the area), 33rd
Major felonies recorded at places in Washington Heights (North), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 383 major felonies at places in Washington Heights (North), against 364 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.