5th Avenue & 22nd Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and 22nd Street is in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, Manhattan. It lies inside the Ladies' Mile Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Sohmer Building stands 110 feet away, and Flatiron Building stands 120 feet away. The nearest subway, 23 St, is about a minute on foot, and 13 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 35 public places, seven of them day care or pre-K sites, and 168 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
23 St
200 feet · 1 min on foot · R, W
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
5 Av/W 23 St · M1, M2, M3, M55
Within a walk
35 places
7 day care or pre-K sites, 6 listed historic places and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & 22nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 23 St, 200 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 23 St R, W
    200 feet
    R W

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. R …
  2. W …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. R …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. 23 St-Baruch College 6
    960 feet
    6
  2. 23 St F, M
    1,210 feet
    F M

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Memories of Twenty-Third Street” (2002) by Keith Godard at the 23 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/W 23 St, 130 feet away, for the M1, M2, M3 and M55.

  • 43 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/W 23 St M1, M2, M3, M55 · Shelter
    130 feet
    M1 M2 M3 M55
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M1 …
  2. M2 …
  3. M3 …
  4. M55 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 5th Avenue.

  • 202 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & E 21 St 54 docks in all
    480 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 30th Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 4 West 21st Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    570 feet
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10010
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 5
City Council district
3
Police precinct
13
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square
Elevation
41 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 58 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

Nineteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 71 signs on these blocks
  • 22 different rules
  • 9 active meters
  • 7 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and October 2025; 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 8:30am to 7pm on 5th Avenue (east side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on 5th Avenue (east side), and as 3 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on 5th Avenue (east side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on 5th Avenue (west side), and as 3 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Saturday 7am to 7pm on 5th Avenue (west side).

North side of 22nd Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 5 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 8 signs NO STANDING 11PM-6AM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-6PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

South side of 22nd Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 6 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING 11PM-6AM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 101808, 101809, 105107, 105363, 105435, 302353 and 336992.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Ladies' Mile Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 170 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance. They were mostly built between 1857 and 1907.

  1. Sohmer Building Designated landmark
    110 feet
  2. Flatiron Building Designated landmark
    120 feet
  3. Mortimer Building Designated landmark
    150 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Madison Square Park.

  1. William Henry Seward Statue by Randolph Rogers, 1876
    410 feet
  2. Roscoe Conkling Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1893
    530 feet
  3. General William Jenkins Worth Obelisk by James Goodwin Batterson, 1857
    750 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 public places.

  • 7 day care or pre-K sites
  • 6 listed historic places
  • 6 trade or language schools
  • 4 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 10 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Montessori at Flatiron Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    180 feet
  2. Pacific College of Health & Science College
    530 feet
  3. American Hi-Tech Business School Trade or language school
    530 feet
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  1. Betty Owen Secretarial Systems Trade or language school
    530 feet
  2. General Assembly Trade or language school
    530 feet
  3. Madison Business & Data Proc Inst Trade or language school
    650 feet
  4. Institute of Culinary Education (The Trade or language school
    770 feet
  5. Manhattan Village Academy School
    790 feet
  6. Midtown School-Business Trade or language school
    800 feet
  7. Rebecca School
    810 feet
  8. Ecole International Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    900 feet
  9. The Ecole Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    900 feet
  10. New York Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    960 feet
  11. Ballet Tech, NYC Public School for Dance School
    1,030 feet
  12. Peak Services for Children Preschool
    1,050 feet
  13. Marie Pense Center Preschool
    1,150 feet
  14. Ecole Internationale de New York School
    1,270 feet
  15. Nord Anglia International School, New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Madison Square Park
    480 feet
  2. Worth Square
    650 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Madison Green Public space
    450 feet
  2. Flatiron Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    660 feet
  3. Worth Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    720 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Scribner Building Listed historic place
    220 feet
  2. Van Alen Institute Research library
    590 feet
  3. Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site Listed historic place
    1,110 feet
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  1. Sidewalk Clock at 200 5th Avenue, Manhattan Listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
  3. Church Missions House Listed historic place
    1,130 feet
  4. United Charities Building Complex Listed historic place
    1,190 feet
  5. National Museum of Mathematics Museum
    1,200 feet
  6. Building at 304 Park Avenue South Listed historic place
    1,250 feet
  7. Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Sava Serbian Orthodox Church Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  2. Calvary St George Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    320 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    740 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,070 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    1,280 feet
  3. Fairway Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,010 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,240 feet
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 168 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 5th Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.