Avenue of the Americas & West 11th Street

Avenue of the Americas and West 11th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the Greenwich Village Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. New School for Social Research (Albert A. List) stands 250 feet away. The nearest subway, 14 St/6 Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the 1, 2, 3 and three more. Within a five-minute walk are 30 public places and 114 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
14 St/6 Av
840 feet · 3 min on foot · 1, 2, 3, F, L, M
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
6 Av/W 10 St · M55
Within a walk
30 places
7 listed historic places, 5 religious buildings and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue of the Americas & West 11th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 14 St/6 Av, 840 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 6 lines at the nearest station
  • 18 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 14 St/6 Av 1, 2, 3, F, L, M
    840 feet
    1 2 3 F L M

Next trains at this station

Uptown
5 lines
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Downtown
5 lines
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West Side
1 line
  1. L …
Brooklyn
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. W 4 St-Wash Sq A, B, C, D, E, F, M
    920 feet
    A B C D E F M
  2. Christopher St-Stonewall 1
    0.3 miles
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wild Things” (2024) by Fred Tomaselli at the 14 St/6 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 6 Av/W 10 St, 210 feet away, for the M55.

  • 22 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 6 Av/W 10 St M55 · Shelter
    210 feet
    M55
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. M55 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 70 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 11 St & 6 Ave 79 docks in all
    80 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 5-9 Union Square West Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2020

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)
Greenwich Village
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 5,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

Meters on the blocks meeting at this corner are posted as 2 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Saturday 7a-1p, 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 1p-10p on Avenue of the Americas (both sides), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 10pm on Avenue of the Americas (east side), and as 3 hour commercial vehicles Monday to Friday 7:30am to 7pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 7pm to 10pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 7:30am to 10pm on Avenue of the Americas (west side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on West 11th Street (south side).

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 102173, 103150, 104342, 104343 and 104881.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Greenwich Village Historic District.

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 428 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1842 and 1861.

  1. New School for Social Research (Albert A. List) Designated landmark
    250 feet
  2. New School for Social Research, Jacob M. Kaplan Building Designated landmark
    280 feet
  3. New School for Social Research Designated landmark
    340 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 041 Greenwich Village School · landmark
    320 feet
  2. The New School College
    460 feet
  3. Fegs Trades & Business Schools Trade or language school
    700 feet
Show all 9
  1. Perry Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    740 feet
  2. New York Grad Sch Psychoanal College
    1,020 feet
  3. Harvest Collegiate High School
    1,100 feet
  4. The First Presbyterian Church in the City of N.Y. Preschool
    1,120 feet
  5. La Petite Ecole Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet
  6. City & Country School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jefferson Market Garden
    480 feet
  2. NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle
    1,000 feet
  3. McCarthy Square
    1,230 feet
Show all 4
  1. Christopher Park
    1,270 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Ruth Wittenberg Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    660 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jefferson Market Library Landmark · listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. Gen. Winfield Scott House Listed historic place
    860 feet
  3. Stonewall National Monument Historic site
    960 feet
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  1. Stonewall Listed historic place
    960 feet
  2. Julius' Bar Listed historic place
    1,080 feet
  3. Greenwich Village Historic District Listed historic place
    1,130 feet
  4. West 4th Street Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  5. Macmillan Building Listed historic place
    1,260 feet
  6. Salmagundi Club Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,040 feet
  2. Episcopal Ascension Church Listed historic place
    1,090 feet
  3. St John Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,190 feet
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  1. St Josephs Church Greenwich Village House of worship
    1,200 feet
  2. Conservative Synagogue 5 House of worship
    1,240 feet
  3. St Francis Xavier Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. McBurney YMCA Recreation center
    1,020 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 18 Fire station
    750 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    890 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    960 feet
  3. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lincoln Market Supermarket
    460 feet
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Westside Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 114 places to eat and 20 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue of the Americas or West 11th Street.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.