1st Avenue & East Houston Street

The four-way crossing of 1st Avenue and East Houston Street is in the East Village, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, 65 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, 583 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. First Street Garden is 580 feet away. The nearest subway, 2 Av, is about a minute on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 33 public places, eight of them schools, and 169 places to eat.

Safety record
45 hurt
65 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
2 Av
110 feet · 1 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
East Houston St/1 Av · M21
Within a walk
33 places
8 schools, 7 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
1st Avenue & East Houston Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 2 Av, 110 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 2 Av F
    110 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. F …
Downtown
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Delancey St-Essex St F, J, M, Z
    0.4 miles
    F J M Z
  2. Broadway-Lafayette St/Bleecker St 6, B, D, F, M
    0.4 miles
    6 B D F M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is East Houston St/1 Av, 130 feet away, for the M21.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. East Houston St/1 Av M21 · Shelter
    130 feet
    M21
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M21 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on 1st Avenue and Allen Street.

  • 71 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 1 St & 1 Ave 75 docks in all
    200 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at FDR Drive & East Houston Street at E Houston Street Pedestrian Overpass, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.7 miles
  2. 169 Ludlow Street Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    880 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 65 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 44 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 15 of those hurt, on foot
  • 8 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

  • Turn calming, December 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 583 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 132nd most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10002
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1 and 2 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
5 and 7 and 9 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Village
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to six travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 4,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2020 and March 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on East Houston Street (south side).

East side of 1st Avenue

  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of 1st Avenue

  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Allen Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING HOTEL LOADING ZONE

West side of Allen Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of East Houston Street

  • Metered parking 7 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No stopping 6 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 101004, 104549, 105963 and 107607.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 25 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Art Deco. They were mostly built between 1860 and 1936.

  1. First Houses Designated landmark
    660 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in ABC Playground.

  1. Large Coqui Sculpture by Tom Otterness, 2007
    750 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 public places.

  • 8 schools
  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Cascades High School
    940 feet
  2. Forsyth Satellite Academy School
    940 feet
  3. Pathways Children's Services School
    980 feet
Show all 9
  1. Nord Anglia International School
    1,030 feet
  2. Neighborhood School
    1,120 feet
  3. The Star Academy - P.S.63 School
    1,120 feet
  4. P.S. 020 Anna Silver School
    1,150 feet
  5. University Settlement Society of New York Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K · listed historic place
    1,210 feet
  6. Manhattan School for Career Development School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Peretz Square
    90 feet
  2. First Park
    100 feet
  3. First Park Playground
    140 feet
Show all 10
  1. Sara D. Roosevelt Park
    560 feet
  2. First Street Garden
    580 feet
  3. ABC Playground
    770 feet
  4. Liz Christy Garden
    850 feet
  5. Houston St Playground
    940 feet
  6. McKinley Playground
    1,100 feet
  7. Children's Magical Garden
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. New York City Marble Cemetery Listed historic place
    810 feet
  2. Substation #409 (IND) Listed historic place
    940 feet
  3. First Roumanian-American Congregation Synagogue Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Anthology Film Archives Arts or cultural center · landmark
    900 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Orthodox Cathedral Holy Virgin Protection Church Landmark
    670 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 189 Allen Street Older adult center
    480 feet
  2. Older adult center at Meltzer Towers Older adult center
    590 feet
  3. YMCA Chinatown Houston Street Center Recreation center
    1,000 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    980 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    1,140 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Mulberry Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    310 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 169 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 1st Avenue, Allen Street or East Houston 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, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.