Bleecker Street & Charles Street

Bleecker Street and Charles Street meet at a four-way crossing in the West Village, Manhattan. The corner is also named Police Officer Brian Murray Way by local law. It lies inside the Greenwich Village Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Darech Amuno Congregation is 400 feet away, and Abingdon Square is 960 feet away. The nearest subway, Christopher St-Stonewall, is about three minutes on foot, for the 1. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places and 172 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Christopher St-Stonewall
810 feet · 3 min on foot · 1
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
W 10 St/Bleecker St · M8
Within a walk
24 places
10 religious buildings, 4 listed historic places and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bleecker Street & Charles Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Christopher St-Stonewall, 810 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 14 St/6 Av 1, 2, 3, F, L, M
    0.3 miles
    1 2 3 F L M
  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 W 10 St/Bleecker St, 330 feet away, for the M8.

  • 22 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 10 St/Bleecker St M8
    330 feet
    M8

Next buses at this stop

  1. M8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bleecker Street.

  • 74 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 8 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Perry St & Bleecker St 35 docks in all
    270 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 139 Charles Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    960 feet
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

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
26 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Police Officer Brian Murray Way, a co-naming enacted on July 9, 2014 (Local Law 34 of 2014).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 5,100 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 between 1879 and 1911.

Trees

NYC Parks records 89 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Police Officer Brian Murray Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and January 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bleecker Street

  • No stopping 6 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Bleecker Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Charles Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Charles Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING 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, 597 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1842 and 1889.

  1. St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Parish House Designated landmark
    440 feet
  2. St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    520 feet
  3. Laux Hotel Designated landmark
    680 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. The Family Sculpture by Chaim Gross, 1992
    530 feet
  2. Gay Liberation Statues by George Segal, 1992
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 3 parks
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Barrow Street Nursery School at Greenwich House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,070 feet
  2. Village Community School
    1,170 feet
  3. St Luke's School
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 003 Charrette School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bleecker Playground
    520 feet
  2. McCarthy Square
    830 feet
  3. Christopher Park
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. Abingdon Square
    960 feet
  2. Sheridan Square Viewing Garden
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lorraine Hansberry Residence Listed historic place
    430 feet
  2. House at 131 Charles Street Listed historic place
    830 feet
  3. Greenwich Village Historic District Listed historic place
    1,000 feet
Show all 4
  1. Julius' Bar Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Darech Amuno Congregation Landmark
    400 feet
  2. St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Landmark
    540 feet
  3. Manhattan Seven Day Adventist Church Landmark
    970 feet
Show all 7
  1. Church of Saint Luke in the Fields House of worship
    1,200 feet
  2. St John Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,220 feet
  3. St Veronica RC Church House of worship
    1,240 feet
  4. Neighborhood Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Fire and police

  1. 6th Precinct Police station
    330 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    850 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. D'Agostino Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Brooklyn Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    810 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 172 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 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bleecker Street or Charles Street.

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