8th Avenue & West 4th Street

The four-way crossing of 8th Avenue and West 4th Street is in the West Village, Manhattan. It lies inside the Greenwich Village Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground is 270 feet away. The nearest subway, 14 St/8 Av, is about two minutes on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 107 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along 8th Avenue.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
14 St/8 Av
650 feet · 2 min on foot · A, C, E, L
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
8 Av/W 4 St · M20
Within a walk
24 places
5 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & West 4th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 14 St/8 Av, 650 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 14 St/8 Av A, C, E, L
    650 feet
    A C E L

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. E …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. E …
Brooklyn
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. 14 St/6 Av 1, 2, 3, F, L, M
    1,200 feet
    1 2 3 F L M
  2. Christopher St-Stonewall 1
    0.4 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Life Underground” (2001) by Tom Otterness at the 14 St/8 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 8 Av/W 4 St, 130 feet away, for the M20.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 8 Av/W 4 St M20
    130 feet
    M20

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 8th Avenue.

  • 55 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 8 of them on-street corrals
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Greenwich Ave & 8 Ave 75 docks in all
    490 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Lincoln Tunnel at West 39th Street & Lincoln Tunnel, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    290 feet
  2. 400 West 12th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.6 miles
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10014
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
3
Police precinct
6
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
West Village
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 111 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on 8th Avenue (east side).

West side of 8th Avenue

  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of West 4th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of West 4th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 105196.

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 404 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1843 and 1887.

  1. Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building Designated landmark
    500 feet
  2. New York Public Library Jackson Square Branch Designated landmark
    520 feet
  3. The Bank Street School Designated landmark
    570 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Abingdon Square Doughboy Statue by Philip H. Martiny, 1921
    620 feet
  2. New York City AIDS Memorial Sculpture by Jenny Holzer, 2016
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Notre Dame School
    640 feet
  2. Buckle My Shoe Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    660 feet
  3. International Language Center Trade or language school
    680 feet
Show all 7
  1. Bright Horizons at West 14th Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  2. West Village Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet
  3. Pusteblume International Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
  4. Corlears School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jane Street Garden
    200 feet
  2. Jackson Square
    260 feet
  3. Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground
    270 feet
Show all 6
  1. Abingdon Square
    510 feet
  2. Bleecker Playground
    770 feet
  3. NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle
    980 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Gansevoort Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,040 feet

Health care

  1. Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Museum of Illusions Museum
    530 feet
  2. Substation #235 (IND) Listed historic place
    580 feet
  3. New York Savings Bank Listed historic place
    770 feet
Show all 4
  1. Andrew S. Norwood House Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Guadalupe at St Bernards Church House of worship
    680 feet
  2. Manhattan Seven Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,040 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    460 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    550 feet
  3. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    600 feet

Supermarkets

  1. D'Agostino Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. Westside Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 107 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 19 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 8th Avenue or West 4th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.