12th Avenue & West Side Highway at West 42nd Street

The five-way junction of 12th Avenue, West Side Highway and West 42nd Street is in Chelsea-Hudson Yards, Manhattan, and is also named Tiananmen Square Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 66 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 2,139 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Pier 84 Dog Run is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, W 42 St/12 Av, is 50 feet away for the M42. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places and eight places to eat.

Safety record
27 hurt
66 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Lincoln Tunnel
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
W 42 St/12 Av · M42
Within a walk
8 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 ferry landings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
12th Avenue & West Side Highway at West 42nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 42 St/12 Av, 50 feet away, for the M42.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 42 St/12 Av M42
    50 feet
    M42

Next buses at this stop

  1. M42 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 12 Ave & W 40 St 76 docks in all
    720 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Lincoln Tunnel at West 40th Street & Lincoln Tunnel, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 466 10th Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 605 West 42nd Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    850 feet
  3. 401-471 West 42nd Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 66 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 26 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 9 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2,139 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 89th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 1,035 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10036
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 4
City Council district
3
Police precinct
10
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Chelsea-Hudson Yards

This corner is also named Tiananmen Square Corner, a co-naming enacted on September 25, 1989 (Local Law 65 of 1989).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 2,600 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 1999 and 2008.

Since 2014 at least 294 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Tiananmen Square Corner.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2019 and September 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY CONSUL-C DIPLOMAT-A & D LICENSE PLATES D/S DECALS ONLY
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of West 42nd Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 4 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY

South side of West 42nd Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 4 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 ferry landings
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 public space

Schools and child care

  1. Vivvi 6 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    610 feet
  2. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hudson River Park
    270 feet
  2. Pier 84 Dog Run
    620 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at River Place Public space
    400 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Circle Line X (Sightseeing Vessel) Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Sunac Natural Market Supermarket
    860 feet
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Other places

  1. West Midtown Ferry Terminal Ferry landing
    870 feet
  2. Midtown West 39 Street Ferry Landing
    990 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 12th Avenue, West 42nd Street or West Side Highway.

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