1st Avenue & East 14th Street

The four-way crossing of 1st Avenue and East 14th Street is in Gramercy, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 33 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. In 2025, 1,853 bus-lane and 526 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Immaculate Conception Church is 190 feet away. The nearest subway, 1 Av, is about a minute on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places and 136 places to eat.

Safety record
23 hurt
33 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
1 Av
50 feet · 1 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
E 14 St/1 Av · L92, M14A SBS, M14D SBS
Within a walk
28 places
7 religious buildings, 6 schools and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
1st Avenue & East 14th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 1 Av, 50 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 1 Av L
    50 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

West Side
1 line
  1. L …
Brooklyn
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. 3 Av L
    1,300 feet
    L
  2. 14 St-Union Sq 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W
    0.4 miles
    4 5 6 L N Q R W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Queens of the Night; Superhero Responds” (2021) by Katherine Bradford at the 1 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 14 St/1 Av, 140 feet away, for the L92, M14A SBS and M14D SBS.

  • 30 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 14 St/1 Av L92, M14A SBS, M14D SBS
    140 feet
    L92 M14A SBS M14D SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. L92 …
  2. M14A SBS …
  3. M14D SBS …

Live arrivals

A bus lane runs along 1st Avenue, all day, every day.

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 1st Avenue.

  • 87 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 14 St & 1 Ave 34 docks in all
    90 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.5 miles
  2. 100 East 15th Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 33 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 23 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 13 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2013
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2018
  • Turn calming, May 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 526 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,153rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 240 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on East 14th Street515240
Northbound on 1st Avenue11–
Total526240

In 2025, 1,853 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 85th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 373 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets · Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10003
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
2 and 4 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
9 and 13 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gramercy
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 113 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 77 signs on these blocks
  • 27 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 6 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and May 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 30Min commercial vehicles Monday to Saturday 6am to 10pm on East 14th Street (north side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on East 14th Street (south side).

East side of 1st Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Taxi stand 1 sign TAXI STAND

West side of 1st Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 103241, 103242, 103395, 104236, 105791 and 106542.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and nine buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1854 and 1896.

  1. Grace Chapel Clergy Houses Designated landmark
    240 feet
  2. (former) Stuyvesant High School Designated landmark
    500 feet
  3. Children's Aid Society, Elizabeth Home for Girls Designated landmark
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 college
  • 9 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Eductional Alliance Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    170 feet
  2. High School for Health Professions and Human Services School
    700 feet
  3. Institute for Collaborative Education School
    700 feet
Show all 9
  1. P.S. M226 School
    700 feet
  2. The East Village Community School
    750 feet
  3. Beth Israel Medical Center College
    880 feet
  4. Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School
    1,040 feet
  5. East Side Community School
    1,100 feet
  6. Bright Horizons at East Village Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lower East Side Playground
    730 feet
  2. East Side Outside Community Garden
    790 feet
  3. Stuyvesant Square Park
    850 feet
Show all 5
  1. 11th Street Community Garden
    1,220 feet
  2. Dias Y Flores Garden
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Gilman Hall Public space
    1,060 feet

Health care

  1. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai Hospital
    690 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy Houses Listed historic place
    360 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Immaculate Conception Church Landmark
    190 feet
  2. Town & Village Synagogue Landmark
    310 feet
  3. St Marys Byzantine Church House of worship
    990 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. 14 Street Y Recreation center
    210 feet
  2. Peter Stuyvesant Post Office
    240 feet
  3. Older adult center at 331 East 12th Street Older adult center
    760 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 5 Fire station
    310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    340 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    380 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    370 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    530 feet
  3. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    230 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    900 feet
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    780 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 136 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 1st Avenue or East 14th Street.

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