Avenue of the Americas & Thompson Street

Avenue of the Americas and Thompson Street meet at a three-way junction in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Duarte Square is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, Canal St, is about a minute on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, five of them parks, and 68 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Avenue of the Americas.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Canal St
140 feet · 1 min on foot · A, C, E
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
6 Av/Grand St · M55
Within a walk
24 places
5 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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Avenue of the Americas & Thompson Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Canal St, 140 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Canal St A, C, E
    140 feet
    A C E

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. E …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. E …

Also within a walk

  1. Canal St 1
    450 feet
    1
  2. Spring St C, E
    0.3 miles
    C E

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “A Gathering” (2001) by Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz at the Canal St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 6 Av/Grand St, 280 feet away, for the M55.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 6 Av/Grand St M55
    280 feet
    M55

Next buses at this stop

  1. M55 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Avenue of the Americas.

  • 28 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. 6 Ave & Broome St 72 docks in all
    830 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge northbound at Pearl Street & R F Wagner Sr Place, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 284 Mott Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 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 August 2017.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10013
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 90 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 107 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Federal and neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1871 and 1900.

  1. Holland Tunnel Administration Building Designated landmark
    500 feet
  2. Holland Plaza Building Designated landmark
    570 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Juan Pablo Duarte Statue by Nicola Arrighini, 1978
    160 feet
  2. Canal Waterworks Fountain by Elyn Zimmerman, 2009
    200 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 5 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 museums
  • 3 schools
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Vivvi 1 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    660 feet
  2. Language Institute for English Trade or language school
    830 feet
  3. Broome Street Academy Charter High School
    840 feet
Show all 7
  1. The Montessori in Soho Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,010 feet
  2. Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School
    1,050 feet
  3. NYC Ischool School
    1,050 feet
  4. Tribeca Community School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Duarte Square
    30 feet
  2. Grand Canal Court Park
    50 feet
  3. Albert Capsouto Park
    170 feet
Show all 5
  1. Tribeca Park
    660 feet
  2. Spring Street Park
    1,170 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Freeman Plaza West Public space
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jackie Robinson Museum
    670 feet
  2. American Thread Building Listed historic place
    760 feet
  3. Drawing Center Museum
    860 feet
Show all 6
  1. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Museum
    1,010 feet
  2. E. V. Haughwout Building Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
  3. Houses at 83 and 85 Sullivan Street Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Performing Garage Theater or concert hall
    840 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Canal Street Post Office Listed historic place
    710 feet
  2. NYS Department of Labor Lower Manhattan Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    830 feet

Fire and police

  1. 1st Precinct Police station
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Gourmet Garage Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 68 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 26 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue of the Americas or Thompson 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.