Avenue of the Americas & Washington Place

Avenue of the Americas and Washington Place meet at a four-way crossing in the West Village, Manhattan. The corner is also named Sgt. Charles H. Cochrane Way by local law. It lies inside the Greenwich Village Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. St Josephs Church Greenwich Village is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, W 4 St-Wash Sq, is about a minute on foot, for the A, B, C and four more.

Safety record
9 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
W 4 St-Wash Sq
330 feet · 1 min on foot · A, B, C, D, E, F, M
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
6 Av/Waverly Pl · M55, SIM1C, SIM3C, SIM4C +6
Within a walk
42 places
7 listed historic places, 7 religious buildings and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue of the Americas & Washington Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is W 4 St-Wash Sq, 330 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 6 Av/Waverly Pl, 320 feet away, for the M55, SIM1C, SIM3C, SIM4C and six more.

  • 25 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 6 Av/Waverly Pl M55, SIM1C, SIM3C, SIM4C +6 · Shelter
    320 feet
    M55 SIM1C SIM3C SIM4C SIM7 SIM9 SIM33 SIM33C X27 X28
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M55 …
  2. SIM1C …
  3. SIM3C …
  4. SIM4C …
  5. SIM7 …
  6. SIM9 …
  7. SIM33 …
  8. SIM33C …
  9. X27 …
  10. X28 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Washington Pl & 6 Ave 76 docks in all
    80 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at FDR Drive & East Houston Street at E Houston Street Pedestrian Overpass, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 139 Charles Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2015

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10011
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
2 and 3 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
6
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
West Village
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Sgt. Charles H. Cochrane Way, a co-naming enacted on August 10, 2015 (Local Law 76 of 2015).

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,100 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 1887 and 1924.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sgt. Charles H. Cochrane Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

Meters on the blocks meeting at this corner are posted as 2 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Saturday 7am to 7pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 7pm to midnight on Avenue of the Americas (east side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to midnight on Avenue of the Americas (east side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 7:30am to midnight on Avenue of the Americas (west side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 10pm on Washington Place (south side).

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 102839, 104633, 105997 and 106897.

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 is one Individual Landmark, and 456 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1835 and 1894.

  1. The Rectory of St. Joseph's Church Designated landmark
    170 feet
  2. St. Joseph's Washington Place School Designated landmark
    200 feet
  3. Banker's Federal Savings & Loan Association Designated landmark
    220 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. General Philip Henry Sheridan Statue by Joseph Pasquale Pollia, 1936
    650 feet
  2. Gay Liberation Statues by George Segal, 1992
    700 feet
  3. Alexander Lyman Holley Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1890
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 42 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Academy of St Joseph School
    270 feet
  2. Barrow Street Nursery School at Greenwich House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    830 feet
  3. Great Oaks Kathleen Sherry Charter School
    1,080 feet
Show all 8
  1. Perry Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,090 feet
  2. The Downing Street Playgroup Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
  3. Little Red School House & Elizabeth Irwin High School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,160 feet
  4. New York Studio School College · listed historic place
    1,230 feet
  5. Lrei School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. West 4th Street Courts Playground
    310 feet
  2. Sheridan Square Viewing Garden
    460 feet
  3. Washington Square Park
    490 feet
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  1. Minetta Playground
    580 feet
  2. Christopher Park
    720 feet
  3. Play Hills Playground
    750 feet
  4. Jefferson Market Garden
    750 feet
  5. Minetta Green
    760 feet
  6. Father Demo Square
    780 feet
  7. Minetta Triangle
    1,070 feet
  8. Toddler Playground
    1,110 feet
  9. Downing Street Playground
    1,120 feet
  10. McCarthy Square
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Ruth Wittenberg Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    690 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. West 4th Street Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    100 feet
  2. Stonewall National Monument Historic site
    730 feet
  3. Caffe Cino Listed historic place
    770 feet
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  1. Stonewall Listed historic place
    780 feet
  2. Jefferson Market Library Listed historic place
    990 feet
  3. Houses at 26, 28 and 30 Jones Street Listed historic place
    990 feet
  4. Julius' Bar Listed historic place
    1,060 feet
  5. Greenwich Village Historic District Listed historic place
    1,110 feet
  6. Lorraine Hansberry Residence Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. New York University Provincetown Playhouse Theater or concert hall
    690 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Josephs Church Greenwich Village Landmark
    110 feet
  2. Neighborhood Church House of worship
    940 feet
  3. St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    990 feet
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  1. Our Lady of Pompeii Church House of worship
    1,040 feet
  2. Judson Memorial Church Listed historic place
    1,060 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 25 Carmine Street Older adult center
    1,080 feet
  2. Older adult center at 20 Washington Square North Older adult center
    1,080 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 18 Fire station
    1,050 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    230 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    230 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    410 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    630 feet
  2. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    80 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 241 places to eat and 29 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 20 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue of the Americas or Washington Place.

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.