Bleecker Street & Barrow Street

Bleecker Street and Barrow Street meet at a four-way crossing in the West Village, Manhattan. The corner 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. Sheridan Square Viewing Garden is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, Christopher St-Stonewall, is about two minutes on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 42 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 248 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Christopher St-Stonewall
460 feet · 2 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
7 Av South/Barrow St · M20
Within a walk
42 places
9 religious buildings, 6 listed historic places and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bleecker Street & Barrow Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Christopher St-Stonewall, 460 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. W 4 St-Wash Sq A, B, C, D, E, F, M
    1,250 feet
    A B C D E F M
  2. Houston St 1
    0.3 miles
    1

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 7 Av South/Barrow St, 110 feet away, for the M20.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av South/Barrow St M20
    110 feet
    M20

Next buses at this stop

  1. M20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bleecker Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 139 Charles Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 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 September 2021.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2012

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
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 5,600 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 1885 and 1919.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 4 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Barrow Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Greenwich Village Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 582 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival. They were mostly built between 1834 and 1891.

  1. Greenwich House Settlement Designated landmark
    400 feet
  2. Corn Exchange Bank (later Chemical Bank of New York Trust Co.) Designated landmark
    410 feet
  3. The Caffe Cino Designated landmark
    440 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Gay Liberation Statues by George Segal, 1992
    570 feet
  2. General Philip Henry Sheridan Statue by Joseph Pasquale Pollia, 1936
    640 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 42 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 6 listed historic places
  • 6 parks
  • 6 schools
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 11 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Barrow Street Nursery School at Greenwich House Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    160 feet
  2. Great Oaks Kathleen Sherry Charter School
    690 feet
  3. Academy of St Joseph School
    870 feet
Show all 9
  1. P.S. 003 Charrette School
    880 feet
  2. The Downing Street Playgroup Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    960 feet
  3. St Luke's School
    1,080 feet
  4. Little Red School House & Elizabeth Irwin High School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,140 feet
  5. Lrei School
    1,200 feet
  6. M.S. 297 School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sheridan Square Viewing Garden
    480 feet
  2. Christopher Park
    530 feet
  3. Father Demo Square
    830 feet
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  1. Downing Street Playground
    960 feet
  2. West 4th Street Courts Playground
    1,040 feet
  3. James J Walker Park
    1,050 feet
  4. James J Walker Park Playground
    1,060 feet
  5. Minetta Playground
    1,080 feet
  6. Minetta Triangle
    1,080 feet
  7. Minetta Green
    1,080 feet
  8. McCarthy Square
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 26, 28 and 30 Jones Street Listed historic place
    440 feet
  2. Lorraine Hansberry Residence Listed historic place
    540 feet
  3. West 4th Street Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    1,070 feet
Show all 8
  1. Stonewall Listed historic place
    1,070 feet
  2. Julius' Bar Listed historic place
    1,080 feet
  3. Hudson Park Library
    1,090 feet
  4. Stonewall National Monument Historic site
    1,110 feet
  5. Greenwich Village Historic District Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Cherry Lane Theatre Theater or concert hall
    650 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Neighborhood Church House of worship
    350 feet
  2. St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Landmark
    510 feet
  3. Our Lady of Pompeii Church House of worship
    730 feet
Show all 6
  1. St Josephs Church Greenwich Village House of worship
    890 feet
  2. Darech Amuno Congregation House of worship
    1,060 feet
  3. Church of Saint Luke in the Fields House of worship
    1,090 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 25 Carmine Street Older adult center
    690 feet
  2. Tony Dapolito Recreation Center
    1,130 feet
  3. Tony Dapolito Pool Swimming pool
    1,160 feet

Fire and police

  1. 6th Precinct Police station
    1,000 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    550 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    640 feet
  3. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    520 feet
  2. Brooklyn Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    600 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 248 places to eat and 26 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 30 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Barrow Street or Bleecker 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.