3rd Avenue & East 16th Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and East 16th Street is in Gramercy, Manhattan, and is also named Harry T. Burleigh Place by local law. It lies on the edge of the Stuyvesant Square Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. In 2025, 1,816 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The St. George Memorial House stands 190 feet away. The nearest subway, 3 Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places and 98 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
3 Av
580 feet · 2 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
3 Av/E 17 St · M101, M102, M103
Within a walk
29 places
8 religious buildings, 8 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & East 16th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 3 Av, 580 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av L
    580 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 14 St-Union Sq 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W
    1,260 feet
    4 5 6 L N Q R W
  2. 1 Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/E 17 St, 100 feet away, for the M101, M102 and M103.

  • 40 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/E 17 St M101, M102, M103
    100 feet
    M101 M102 M103

Next buses at this stop

  1. M101 …
  2. M102 …
  3. M103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East 16th Street.

  • 92 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 15 St & 3 Ave 78 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 100 East 15th Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1,130 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,816 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 465th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 890 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10003
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 6
City Council district
2
Police precinct
13
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gramercy
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Harry T. Burleigh Place, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

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

Homes

About 5,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Harry T. Burleigh Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 5 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and August 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 3 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Saturday 7am to 7pm on East 16th Street (south side).

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 2 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of East 16th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 101792, 102111, 102112, 103522 and 106117.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Stuyvesant Square Historic District.

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 109 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Anglo-Italianate. They were mostly built between 1850 and 1869.

  1. The St. George Memorial House Designated landmark
    190 feet
  2. Scheffel Hall Designated landmark
    320 feet
  3. Friends' Meeting House Designated landmark
    380 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest at Washington Irving High School.

  1. Washington Irving Memorial Bust by Friedrich Beer, 1885
    540 feet
  2. Peter Stuyvesant Statue by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1941
    570 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 8 schools
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Jack and Jill School at St. George's Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    100 feet
  2. Friends Seminary School · landmark
    390 feet
  3. Beginnings Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    400 feet
Show all 11
  1. Academy for Software Engineering School
    450 feet
  2. Gramercy Arts High School
    450 feet
  3. International High School at Union Square School
    450 feet
  4. Success Academy Charter School - Union Square School
    450 feet
  5. The High School for Language and Diplomacy School
    450 feet
  6. Union Square Academy for Health Sciences School
    450 feet
  7. Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School
    1,110 feet
  8. Beth Israel Medical Center College
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Stuyvesant Square Park
    480 feet
  2. Union Square Park
    1,060 feet
  3. Evelyn's Playground
    1,100 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Park Towers Medical Plaza Public space
    490 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stuyvesant Square Historic District Listed historic place
    530 feet
  2. Society for the Lying-In Hospital Listed historic place
    970 feet
  3. Van Tassell & Kearney Horse Auction Mart Listed historic place
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. Germania Life Insurance Company Building Listed historic place
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    340 feet
  2. St George Episc Church Landmark · listed historic place
    390 feet
  3. Manhattan Korean Presbyterian Church House of worship
    420 feet
Show all 7
  1. Christ Lutheran Church House of worship
    480 feet
  2. East End Temple House of worship
    790 feet
  3. St Marys Byzantine Church House of worship
    830 feet
  4. Brotherhood Synagogue Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,020 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    840 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Westside Market Supermarket
    190 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    760 feet
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 98 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or East 16th 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 Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.