Battery Park Underpass & South Street

Battery Park Underpass and South Street meet at a four-way crossing in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan, at the edge of The Battery-Governors Island-Ellis Island-Liberty Island. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The Battery is 30 feet away, and Whitehall Ferry Terminal is 280 feet away. The nearest subway, Whitehall St-South Ferry, is about three minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, two of them parks, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Whitehall St-South Ferry
730 feet · 3 min on foot · 1, R, W
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
South Ferry/Terminal · M15 SBS
Within a walk
12 places
4 public spaces, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Battery Park Underpass & South Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Whitehall St-South Ferry, 730 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Whitehall St-South Ferry 1, R, W
    730 feet
    1 R W

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 1 …
  2. R …
  3. W …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. R …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. Bowling Green 4, 5
    1,280 feet
    4 5
  2. Rector St R, W
    0.4 miles
    R W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Passages” (2000) by Frank Giorgini and “See it split, see it change” (2009) by Doug & Michael Starn at the Whitehall St-South Ferry station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is South Ferry/Terminal, 410 feet away, for the M15 SBS.

  • 28 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. South Ferry/Terminal M15 SBS
    410 feet
    M15 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M15 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 22 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bus Slip & State St 69 docks in all
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at South Street & FDR Drive, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.9 miles
  2. 1 West Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 299 South Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10004
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Financial District-Battery Park City; the corner is on the edge of the The Battery-Governors Island-Ellis Island-Liberty Island area

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 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 in 1985.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Beaux-Arts and Federal, one each, and built between 1793 and 1909.

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Coast Guard Memorial Statue by Norman Millet Thomas, 1955
    430 feet
  2. John Wolfe Ambrose Bust by Andrew O'Connor, Jr. and Frederick George Richard Roth, 1936
    500 feet
  3. East Coast Memorial Statue by Albino Manca, 1963
    600 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 public spaces
  • 2 parks
  • 2 park features
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Battery Park
    30 feet
  2. Battery Park Playground
    100 feet
  3. Peter Minuit Plaza in The Battery Park feature
    310 feet
Show all 5
  1. Admiral Dewey Promenade in The Battery Park feature
    390 feet
  2. East River Waterfront Esplanade Park
    1,160 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 17 State Street Public space
    830 feet
  2. Public space at 1 State Street Plaza Public space
    860 feet
  3. Public space at 1 Battery Park Plaza Public space
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at 1 New York Plaza Public space
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Battery Park Control House Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Elizabeth Ann Seton Shrine Listed historic place
    630 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other places

  1. Whitehall Ferry Terminal Ferry landing · landmark
    280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat.

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 corners on foot, two of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Battery Park Underpass or South Street.

Sources: MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.