Battery Place & 1st Place

Battery Place and 1st Place meet at a four-way crossing in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Battery Park City School is 160 feet away, and Museum of Jewish Heritage is 210 feet away. The nearest subway, Bowling Green, is about five minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bowling Green
1,320 feet · 5 min on foot · 4, 5
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Battery Pl/1 Pl · M20
Within a walk
19 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Battery Place & 1st Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bowling Green, 1,320 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bowling Green 4, 5
    1,320 feet
    4 5

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Whitehall St-South Ferry 1, R, W
    0.3 miles
    1 R W
  2. Rector St R, W
    0.4 miles
    R W

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Battery Pl/1 Pl, 130 feet away, for the M20.

  • 28 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Battery Pl/1 Pl M20
    130 feet
    M20

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Little West St & 1 Pl 35 docks in all
    360 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel at Hugh L Carey Tunnel Entrance, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2021.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10280
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Financial District-Battery Park City
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 1st Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 1st Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Battery Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Battery Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Battery Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Three buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Art Deco, and built between 1902 and 1931.

  1. Whitehall Building; Greater Whitehall Building Designated landmark
    620 feet
  2. Downtown Athletic Club Building Designated landmark
    660 feet
  3. 21 West Street Building Designated landmark
    680 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. New York Korean War Veterans Memorial Sculpture by Mac Adams, 1991
    800 feet
  2. Walloon Settlers Memorial Stele, 1924
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 monuments or memorials
  • 2 museums
  • 2 parks
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Battery Park City School
    160 feet
  2. P.S. M094 School
    160 feet
  3. Nyfa College
    1,160 feet
Show all 8
  1. Institute of Career Continuity Trade or language school
    1,160 feet
  2. John V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy Charter School
    1,160 feet
  3. Green Ivy Battery Park Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,180 feet
  4. Playto Battery Park Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,220 feet
  5. The Learning Experience Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Battery Park City Park
    290 feet
  2. The Battery Park
    740 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Pier A Landmark
    790 feet
  2. Public space at 17 Battery Place Public space
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Skyscraper Museum
    170 feet
  2. Museum of Jewish Heritage Museum
    210 feet
  3. American Merchant Mariners Memorial Monument or memorial
    880 feet
Show all 6
  1. Giovanni Da Verrazzano Monument Monument or memorial
    880 feet
  2. The Sphere Public artwork
    950 feet
  3. City Pier A Listed historic place
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Other places

  1. Battery Park Slip 6 Ferry Landing
    1,120 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 1st Place or Battery Place.

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