12th Avenue & West Side Highway at West 23rd Street

The six-way junction of 12th Avenue, West Side Highway and West 23rd Street is in Chelsea-Hudson Yards, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 120 red-light and 14,561 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Chelsea Waterside Park is 190 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 12 Av/W 23 St, is 200 feet away for the M23 SBS. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them parks, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Lincoln Tunnel
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
12 Av/W 23 St · M23 SBS
Within a walk
9 places
3 parks, 1 ambulance station and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
12th Avenue & West Side Highway at West 23rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 12 Av/W 23 St, 200 feet away, for the M23 SBS.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 12 Av/W 23 St M23 SBS
    200 feet
    M23 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M23 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pier 61 at Chelsea Piers 43 docks in all
    1,000 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Lincoln Tunnel at West 40th Street & Lincoln Tunnel, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 466 10th Avenue Gas station
    1 mile
  2. West 24th Street Charging for electric cars, four fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported eight crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2017
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 120 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 173rd most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2025, 14,561 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 35th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 7,658 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on 12th Avenue10,6385,341
Southbound on 12th Avenue3,9232,317
Total14,5617,658

Every corner with red-light camera tickets · Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10011
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 4
City Council district
3
Police precinct
10
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Chelsea-Hudson Yards

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2001 and 2005.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Landmarks and historic districts

Three buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as American Round Arch, Gothic Revival and Industrial Neoclassical, one each, and built between 1891 and 1913.

  1. The Zinn Building Designated landmark
    650 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 arts or cultural center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 dog run
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Basis Independent Manhattan School
    580 feet
  2. Chelsea Piers L. P. Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hudson River Park
    120 feet
  2. Chelsea Waterside Park
    190 feet
  3. Chelsea Waterside Dog Park Dog run
    240 feet
Show all 4
  1. The High Line Park
    1,070 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Chelsea Piers Walk Public space
    540 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 7 Ambulance station
    1,200 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Dia Art Foundation Chelsea Gallery Arts or cultural center
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,230 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Avenue, West 23rd Street or West Side Highway.

Sources: NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.