5th Avenue & Washington Square North

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and Washington Square North is in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, and is also named Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer Way by local law. It lies inside the Greenwich Village Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The statue “George Washington Accompanied by Fame and Valor” is 60 feet away. The nearest subway, W 4 St-Wash Sq, is about four minutes on foot, for the A, B, C and four more.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
W 4 St-Wash Sq
1,040 feet · 4 min on foot · A, B, C, D, E, F, M
Nearest bus stop
430 feet
W 8 St/5 Av · M8
Within a walk
25 places
6 colleges, 4 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & Washington Square North Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is W 4 St-Wash Sq, 1,040 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 7 lines at the nearest station
  • 16 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 4 St-Wash Sq A, B, C, D, E, F, M
    1,040 feet
    A B C D E F M

Next trains at this station

Uptown
7 lines
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  7. M …
Downtown
7 lines
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  6. F …
  7. M …

Also within a walk

  1. 8 St-NYU R, W
    1,250 feet
    R W
  2. Astor Pl 6
    0.4 miles
    6

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 8 St/5 Av, 430 feet away, for the M8.

  • 25 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 8 St/5 Av M8
    430 feet
    M8

Next buses at this stop

  1. M8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 5th Avenue and Washington Square North.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. MacDougal St & Washington Sq 33 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 2 Washington Square Village Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 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

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10011
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
2
Police precinct
6
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Greenwich Village
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer Way, a co-naming enacted on August 14, 2022 (Local Law 81 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1923 and 1952.

Trees

NYC Parks records 128 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and July 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 5th Avenue

  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of 5th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-9AM

North side of Washington Square North

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Greenwich Village Historic District.

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 218 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were built between 1800 and 1972.

  1. Washington Arch Designated landmark
    80 feet
  2. One Fifth Avenue Designated landmark
    290 feet
  3. Hotel Marlton Designated landmark
    450 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. George Washington Accompanied by Fame and Valor Statue by Hermon Atkins MacNeil, 1916
    60 feet
  2. George Washington Accompanied by Wisdom and Justice Statue by Alexander Stirling Calder, 1918
    70 feet
  3. Washington Square Arch Arch by Frederick William MacMonnies and Philip Martiny, 1895
    80 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 6 colleges
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Lac Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care
    210 feet
  2. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    420 feet
  3. NYU Robert F Wagner Grad Sch Pub Ser College
    430 feet
Show all 9
  1. New York Studio School College · listed historic place
    670 feet
  2. La Petite Ecole Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    980 feet
  3. NYU Inst for Education & Social Poli College
    990 feet
  4. New York Grad Sch Psychoanal College
    1,210 feet
  5. New York University College
    1,230 feet
  6. Liu-New York University Campus College
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Washington Square Park
    90 feet
  2. Toddler Playground
    130 feet
  3. Washington Square Park Playground
    160 feet
Show all 4
  1. Play Hills Playground
    1,080 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 300 Mercer Street Public space
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (Brown Building) Listed historic place
    950 feet
  2. West 4th Street Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  3. NYU Tamiment Library Research library
    1,230 feet
Show all 4
  1. New York University Libraries Research library
    1,240 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. New York University Frederick Loewe Theatre Theater or concert hall
    970 feet
  2. New York University Provincetown Playhouse Theater or concert hall
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Episcopal Ascension Church Listed historic place
    930 feet
  2. St Josephs Church Greenwich Village House of worship
    1,200 feet
  3. First Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,250 feet
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  1. Conservative Synagogue 5 House of worship
    1,250 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 20 Washington Square North Older adult center
    390 feet

Bank branches

  1. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,040 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,090 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,270 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 74 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or Washington Square North.

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 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.