Avenue A & St Marks Place

Avenue A and St Marks Place meet at a four-way crossing in the East Village, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. Tompkins Square Park is 40 feet away, and Lower East Side Playground is 1,150 feet away. The nearest subway, 1 Av, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 192 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
1 Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Saint Marks Pl/Avenue A · M8
Within a walk
27 places
10 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue A & St Marks Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 1 Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 1 Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Astor Pl 6
    0.5 miles
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Queens of the Night; Superhero Responds” (2021) by Katherine Bradford at the 1 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saint Marks Pl/Avenue A, 80 feet away, for the M8.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saint Marks Pl/Avenue A M8
    80 feet
    M8

Next buses at this stop

  1. M8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Avenue A.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 7 St & Ave A 45 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at Avenue C, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.6 miles
  2. 169 Ludlow Street Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10009
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
2
Police precinct
9
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Village
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 4,300 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 1900 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 141 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Avenue A (east side).

West side of Avenue A

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of St Marks Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 6PM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of St Marks Place

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-MIDNIGHT SATURDAY 9AM-MIDNIGHT
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 103284 and 106149.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 81 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were built between 1839 and 1919.

  1. Congregation of Edes Israel Anshei Mesrich Designated landmark
    620 feet
  2. Tompkins Square Lodging House Designated landmark
    820 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Samuel Sullivan Cox Statue by Louise Lawson, 1891
    230 feet
  2. Temperance Fountain Fountain by Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1891
    250 feet
  3. Slocum Disaster Memorial Stele by Bruno Louis Zimm, 1906
    480 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. George Jackson Academy School
    500 feet
  2. Little Missionary's Day Nursery Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    560 feet
  3. Bank Street College of Education Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. East Side Community School
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Tompkins Square Park
    40 feet
  2. Tompkins Square Park Playground
    50 feet
  3. 11th Street Community Garden
    900 feet
Show all 8
  1. Creative Little Garden
    1,010 feet
  2. Lower East Side Playground
    1,150 feet
  3. McKinley Playground
    1,190 feet
  4. 6th Street & Avenue B Garden
    1,230 feet
  5. East Side Outside Community Garden
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Tompkins Square Library Landmark
    1,100 feet
  2. Christodora House Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  3. Charlie Parker Residence Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Citylight Church Landmark
    320 feet
  2. St Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr RC Church Landmark
    460 feet
  3. St Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church Landmark
    460 feet
Show all 5
  1. St Cyril Methodius Church House of worship
    1,040 feet
  2. St Brigid Church St Emeric House of worship
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 103 East 7th Street Older adult center
    580 feet
  2. Tompkins Square Park Mini Pool Swimming pool
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,090 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 192 places to eat and 18 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue A or St Marks Place.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.