Baxter Street & Bayard Street

Baxter Street and Bayard Street meet at a four-way crossing in Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Manhattan corner. Columbus Park is 40 feet away, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan US Courthouse is 1,020 feet away. The nearest subway, Canal St, is about three minutes on foot, and 13 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 33 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 184 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Canal St
780 feet · 3 min on foot · 6, J, N, Q, R, W, Z
Nearest bus stop
1,050 feet
Worth St/Centre St · M22
Within a walk
33 places
10 religious buildings, 6 courthouses and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Baxter Street & Bayard Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Canal St, 780 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 7 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Canal St 6, J, N, Q, R, W, Z
    780 feet
    6 J N Q R W Z

Next trains at this station

Uptown
5 lines
  1. 6 …
  2. N …
  3. Q …
  4. R …
  5. W …
Downtown
7 lines
  1. 6 …
  2. J …
  3. N …
  4. Q …
  5. R …
  6. W …
  7. Z …
Brooklyn
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St 4, 5, 6, J, Z
    0.3 miles
    4 5 6 J Z
  2. Canal St A, C, E
    0.4 miles
    A C E

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Empress Voyage 2.22.1794” (1998) by Bing Lee at the Canal St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Worth St/Centre St, 1,050 feet away, for the M22.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Worth St/Centre St M22
    1,050 feet
    M22

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 42 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 5 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bayard St & Baxter St 43 docks in all
    140 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge northbound at Pearl Street & R F Wagner Sr Place, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.9 miles
  2. 123 Leonard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    880 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10013
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1
Police precinct
5
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Chinatown-Two Bridges
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,200 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 1910 and 1915.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Baxter Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 4PM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 4 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 8AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY CRIMINAL COURT JUDGES MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

North side of Bayard Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AVO NYSJ MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of Bayard Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 106844.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are five Individual Landmarks, and 17 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1868 and 1898.

  1. Fire House, Engine Company No. 31 Designated landmark
    490 feet
  2. Ahrens Building Designated landmark
    630 feet
  3. 94-100 Lafayette Street Building Designated landmark
    690 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Dr. Sun Yat Sen Statue by Lu Chun-Hsiung, 2019
    200 feet
  2. Abraham De Peyster Statue by George Edwin Bissell, 1896
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 6 courthouses
  • 3 parks
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 10 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Chinatown Manpower Project Trade or language school
    360 feet
  2. Chintatown Manpower Project Trade or language school
    360 feet
  3. Chinese-American Planning Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    560 feet
Show all 5
  1. Transfiguration School Listed historic place
    850 feet
  2. P.S. 130 Hernando de Soto School
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Columbus Park
    40 feet
  2. Collect Pond Park
    680 feet
  3. Columbus Park Playground
    710 feet
Show all 4
  1. Thomas Paine Park
    960 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Mandarin Plaza Public space
    1,070 feet
  2. Doyers Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 254-260 Canal Street Listed historic place
    1,130 feet
  2. Historical Records NY CNTY Clerk Research library · landmark
    1,150 feet
  3. Edward Mooney House Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
Show all 5
  1. Triumph of the Human Spirit Statue Monument or memorial
    1,260 feet
  2. Museum of Chinese in America Museum
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Transfiguration Catholic Church Landmark · listed historic place
    650 feet
  2. Most Precious Blood House of worship
    680 feet
  3. Trust in God Baptist Church House of worship
    730 feet
Show all 4
  1. First Chinese Baptist NYC House of worship
    820 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Supreme Court Criminal Term 100 Centre St Courthouse
    260 feet
  2. Supreme Court Criminal Term 111 Centre St Courthouse
    380 feet
  3. Daniel Patrick Moynihan US Courthouse
    1,020 feet
Show all 6
  1. Supreme Court Civil Term Courthouse · landmark
    1,040 feet
  2. Manhattan Family Court Courthouse
    1,070 feet
  3. Criminal Court - Broadway Courthouse · listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Fire and police

  1. 5th Precinct Police station
    970 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    730 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    790 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. New Kam Man Supermarket
    780 feet
  2. Gourmet Garage Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Hong Kong Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 184 places to eat and 15 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Baxter Street or Bayard Street.

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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.