5th Avenue & 23rd Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and 23rd Street is in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, Manhattan. It lies inside the Ladies' Mile Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Western Union Building stands 110 feet away, and Spinning Wheel Building stands 280 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 32 public places, six of them listed historic places, and 183 places to eat.

Safety record
27 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
23 St
110 feet · 1 min on foot · R, W
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
E 23 St/Broadway · M23 SBS
Within a walk
32 places
6 listed historic places, 6 trade or language schools and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & 23rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 23 St, 110 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
    110 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 F, M
    930 feet
    F M
  2. 23 St-Baruch College 6
    940 feet
    6

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 E 23 St/Broadway, 170 feet away, for the M23 SBS.

  • 45 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 23 St/Broadway M23 SBS
    170 feet
    M23 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M23 SBS …

Live arrivals

A bus lane runs along 23rd Street, all day, every day.

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & W 25 St 109 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 30th Street, 1.1 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
    850 feet
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 27 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 8 of those hurt, on foot
  • 6 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2012

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

Homes

About 2,000 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

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 65 signs on these blocks
  • 17 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

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

North side of 23rd Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 6 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of 23rd Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 5 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 5th Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Bus layover only 3 signs MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 102340, 105435 and 107098.

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 are two Individual Landmarks, and 126 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance. They were mostly built between 1860 and 1908.

  1. Western Union Building Designated landmark
    110 feet
  2. Flatiron Building Designated landmark
    200 feet
  3. Spinning Wheel Building Designated landmark
    280 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
    200 feet
  2. Roscoe Conkling Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1893
    390 feet
  3. General William Jenkins Worth Obelisk by James Goodwin Batterson, 1857
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 public places.

  • 6 listed historic places
  • 6 trade or language schools
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 museums
  • 3 schools
  • 9 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Montessori at Flatiron Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    460 feet
  2. Institute of Culinary Education (The Trade or language school
    780 feet
  3. Pacific College of Health & Science College
    810 feet
Show all 15
  1. Ecole International Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    620 feet
  2. The Ecole Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    620 feet
  3. Peak Services for Children Preschool
    770 feet
  4. American Hi-Tech Business School Trade or language school
    810 feet
  5. Betty Owen Secretarial Systems Trade or language school
    810 feet
  6. General Assembly Trade or language school
    810 feet
  7. Madison Business & Data Proc Inst Trade or language school
    930 feet
  8. Rebecca School
    1,030 feet
  9. Manhattan Village Academy School
    1,070 feet
  10. Midtown School-Business Trade or language school
    1,080 feet
  11. New York Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,170 feet
  12. Ballet Tech, NYC Public School for Dance School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Madison Square Park
    200 feet
  2. Worth Square
    370 feet
  3. Police Officer Moira Ann Smith Playground
    1,140 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Flatiron Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    380 feet
  2. Public space at Madison Green Public space
    400 feet
  3. Worth Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    440 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sidewalk Clock at 200 5th Avenue, Manhattan Listed historic place
    170 feet
  2. Scribner Building Listed historic place
    500 feet
  3. Van Alen Institute Research library
    870 feet
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  1. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Listed historic place
    750 feet
  2. National Museum of Mathematics Museum
    920 feet
  3. Building at 304 Park Avenue South Listed historic place
    970 feet
  4. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Complex Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  5. Museum of Sex Museum
    1,110 feet
  6. Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State Listed historic place
    1,170 feet
  7. Poster House Museum
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Sava Serbian Orthodox Church Listed historic place
    840 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    110 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    470 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    930 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,080 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    1,230 feet
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 183 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 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.