Bedford Street & Grove Street

Bedford Street and Grove Street meet at a four-way crossing in the West Village, Manhattan. The corner is also named Larry Selman Way by local law. It lies inside the Greenwich Village Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. P.S. 003 Charrette School is 200 feet away, and Tony Dapolito Recreation Center is 1,180 feet away. The nearest subway, Christopher St-Stonewall, is about three minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places and 193 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Christopher St-Stonewall
820 feet · 3 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
Christopher St/Hudson St · M8
Within a walk
29 places
8 religious buildings, 5 schools and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Street & Grove Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Christopher St-Stonewall, 820 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Christopher St-Stonewall 1
    820 feet
    1

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. 1 …
Downtown
1 line
  1. 1 …

Also within a walk

  1. Houston St 1
    0.3 miles
    1
  2. W 4 St-Wash Sq A, B, C, D, E, F, M
    0.3 miles
    A B C D E F M

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “The Greenwich Village Murals” (1994) by Lee Brozgol at the Christopher St-Stonewall station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Christopher St/Hudson St, 370 feet away, for the M8.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Christopher St/Hudson St M8
    370 feet
    M8

Next buses at this stop

  1. M8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 69 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 7 Ave S & Bleecker St 87 docks in all
    750 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 139 Charles Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10014
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
3
Police precinct
6
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
West Village
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Larry Selman Way, a co-naming enacted on August 10, 2015 (Local Law 76 of 2015).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • 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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1886 and 1919.

Since 2014 at least 7 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 107 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Larry Selman Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

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

East side of Bedford Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Bedford Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Grove Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Grove Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Greenwich Village Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 500 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Federal. They were mostly built between 1834 and 1891.

  1. The Manhattan School (formerly Public School No. 3) Designated landmark
    130 feet
  2. St. Luke's Church Vicarage Designated landmark
    380 feet
  3. The Vernon Studio Building Designated landmark
    520 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 003 Charrette School
    200 feet
  2. St Luke's School Landmark
    400 feet
  3. Barrow Street Nursery School at Greenwich House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    840 feet
Show all 7
  1. M.S. 297 School
    940 feet
  2. Village Community School
    1,050 feet
  3. Bright Horizons at West Village Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet
  4. Great Oaks Kathleen Sherry Charter School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Christopher Park
    900 feet
  2. Sheridan Square Viewing Garden
    990 feet
  3. James J Walker Park
    1,100 feet
Show all 4
  1. James J Walker Park Playground
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lorraine Hansberry Residence Listed historic place
    740 feet
  2. Houses at 26, 28 and 30 Jones Street Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  3. Federal Office Building Listed historic place
    1,130 feet
Show all 5
  1. Hudson Park Library
    1,140 feet
  2. Caffe Cino Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Cherry Lane Theatre Theater or concert hall · landmark
    450 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of Saint Luke in the Fields Landmark
    410 feet
  2. St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    720 feet
  3. St Veronica RC Church House of worship
    910 feet
Show all 5
  1. Neighborhood Church House of worship
    970 feet
  2. Our Lady of Pompeii Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Tony Dapolito Recreation Center
    1,180 feet
  2. Tony Dapolito Pool Swimming pool
    1,190 feet
  3. Older adult center at 25 Carmine Street Older adult center
    1,280 feet

Fire and police

  1. 6th Precinct Police station
    1,080 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    920 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,020 feet
  2. Brooklyn Fare Supermarket
    1,020 feet
  3. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    960 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 193 places to eat and 19 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 21 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bedford Street or Grove 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, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.