Avenue of the Americas & West 12th Street

Avenue of the Americas and West 12th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. New School for Social Research, Jacob M. Kaplan Building stands 240 feet away. The nearest subway, 14 St/6 Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the 1, 2, 3 and three more. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places and 106 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
14 St/6 Av
570 feet · 2 min on foot · 1, 2, 3, F, L, M
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
6 Av/W 12 St · M55
Within a walk
24 places
4 listed historic places, 3 colleges and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue of the Americas & West 12th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 14 St/6 Av, 570 feet from this corner, about two 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
    570 feet
    1 2 3 F L M

Next trains at this station

Uptown
5 lines
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  4. F …
  5. M …
Downtown
5 lines
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  4. F …
  5. M …
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
    1,180 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 12 St, 90 feet away, for the M55.

  • 22 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 6 Av/W 12 St M55
    90 feet
    M55

Next buses at this stop

  1. M55 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Avenue of the Americas and West 12th Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W 11 St & 6 Ave 79 docks in all
    330 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
    0.6 miles
  2. 5-9 Union Square West Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2015
  • Turn calming, August 2019

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
24 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 5,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

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 passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 10pm on Avenue of the Americas (east side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Avenue of the Americas (east side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 7:30am to 7pm on Avenue of the Americas (west 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 12th Street (south side).

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 102173, 103150, 104716, 105951 and 106218.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Greenwich Village Historic District.

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and 323 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1842 and 1860.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 4 listed historic places
  • 3 colleges
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 9 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The New School College
    330 feet
  2. Fegs Trades & Business Schools Trade or language school
    430 feet
  3. P.S. 041 Greenwich Village School · landmark
    590 feet
Show all 9
  1. Harvest Collegiate High School
    830 feet
  2. The First Presbyterian Church in the City of N.Y. Preschool
    850 feet
  3. City & Country School
    940 feet
  4. Perry Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,010 feet
  5. Pratt Institute Manhattan Cntr College
    1,070 feet
  6. New York Grad Sch Psychoanal College
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jefferson Market Garden
    740 feet
  2. NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle
    960 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Ruth Wittenberg Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    920 feet

Health care

  1. Northwell Greenwich Village Hospital
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jefferson Market Library Listed historic place
    720 feet
  2. Gen. Winfield Scott House Listed historic place
    760 feet
  3. Macmillan Building Listed historic place
    990 feet
Show all 6
  1. Salmagundi Club Listed historic place
    1,170 feet
  2. Stonewall Listed historic place
    1,230 feet
  3. Stonewall National Monument Historic site
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Presbyterian Church House of worship
    930 feet
  2. St Francis Xavier Church House of worship
    1,040 feet
  3. Conservative Synagogue 5 House of worship
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. McBurney YMCA Recreation center
    750 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 18 Fire station
    1,020 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    690 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 106 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue of the Americas or West 12th 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.