Joker Stairs

The West 167th Street Stairs, colloquially known as the Joker Stairs, are a step street connecting Shakespeare and Anderson avenues at West 167th Street in the neighborhood of in .
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  • Opening hours: 24/7
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: steps in Highbridge, The Bronx, New York City
  • Also known as: “Joker stairs”, “Joker steps”, “Joker’s Ladder”, and “West 167th Street Stairs”
  • Address: 1165 Shakespeare Avenue, NY 10452
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Yankee Stadium and 167th Street station.

Stadium
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is a baseball stadium located in in , United States. It is the home field of Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees and New York City FC of Major League Soccer. is situated 2,400 feet south of Joker Stairs.

Metro station
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The is a local station on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 167th Street and River Avenue in the Concourse neighborhood of , it is served by the 4 train at all times. is situated 640 feet east of Joker Stairs.

Museum
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The , also called the Bronx Museum of Art or simply the Bronx Museum, is an American cultural institution located in Concourse, Bronx, New York. is situated 2,000 feet southeast of Joker Stairs.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Highbridge and Washington Heights.

Neighborhood
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is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the central-west section of , . Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, to the south, and the to the west.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of in . It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War.

Quarter
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The is an area of the New York City borough of . The area comprises neighborhoods in the southern part of the Bronx, such as Grand Concourse, , , and .

Joker Stairs

Latitude
40.8358° or 40° 50′ 9″ north
Longitude
-73.92361° or 73° 55′ 25″ west
Open location code
87G8R3PG+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6925436185
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q74077989
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Joker Stairs” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سلالم الجوكر”
  • Armenian: “Ջոկերի աստիճաններ”
  • Basque: “Joker Stairs”
  • Catalan: “escales del Joker”
  • Catalan: “esglaons del Joker”
  • Chinese: “小丑樓梯”
  • German: “‘Joker’-Treppe”
  • Hebrew: “מדרגות הג’וקר”
  • Italian: “Joker Stairs”
  • Italian: “La scala di Joker”
  • Japanese: “ジョーカー・ステアーズ”
  • Korean: “조커 계단”
  • Persian: “پله‌های جوکر”
  • Portuguese: “Joker Stairs”
  • Russian: “лестница Джокера”
  • Russian: “Лестница Джокера”
  • Spanish: “Escaleras del Joker”
  • Spanish: “Joker Stairs”
  • Ukrainian: “Сходи Джокера”

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