Broad Street & Nassau Street

Broad Street and Nassau Street meet at a five-way junction in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. The corner is also named John Peter Zenger Square by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. J. P. Morgan & Company Building, one of 25 Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 150 feet away, and New York Stock Exchange stands 170 feet away. The nearest subway, Broad St, is about a minute on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 71 public places and 175 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Broad St
80 feet · 1 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
470 feet
Broadway/Rector St · M55
Within a walk
71 places
22 listed historic places, 15 public spaces and 12 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broad Street & Nassau Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Broad St, 80 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broad St J, Z
    80 feet
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Brooklyn
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Wall St 4, 5
    400 feet
    4 5
  2. Wall St 2, 3
    400 feet
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Rector St, 470 feet away, for the M55.

  • 31 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Rector St M55
    470 feet
    M55

Next buses at this stop

  1. M55 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Liberty St & Nassau St 45 docks in all
    670 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.6 miles
  2. 25 Broadway Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 299 South Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10005
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Financial District-Battery Park City
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

This corner is also named John Peter Zenger Square, a co-naming enacted on December 6, 1985 (Local Law 82 of 1985).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 5,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

Two trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on John Peter Zenger Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Broad Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Nassau Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Nassau Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Wall Street

  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of Wall Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 25 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical, and mostly built between 1894 and 1924.

  1. J. P. Morgan & Company Building Designated landmark
    150 feet
  2. Bankers Trust Building Designated landmark
    150 feet
  3. New York Stock Exchange Designated landmark
    170 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Louise Nevelson Plaza.

  1. Shadows and Flags Sculpture by Louise Nevelson, 1978
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 71 public places.

  • 22 listed historic places
  • 15 public spaces
  • 15 schools
  • 5 trade or language schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 11 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Global Education Insurance School Trade or language school
    260 feet
  2. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    340 feet
  3. Pine Street School
    360 feet
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  1. Quad Preparatory School
    540 feet
  2. Leman Manhattan Prep School
    600 feet
  3. NY Inst of Security & Polygraph Sci Trade or language school
    630 feet
  4. The King's College
    660 feet
  5. Sfinity Trade or language school
    710 feet
  6. Center for Hearing and Communication Preschool
    740 feet
  7. Compass Charter School
    830 feet
  8. Millennium High School
    1,010 feet
  9. P.S. 150 School
    1,090 feet
  10. Manhattan Language Trade or language school
    1,150 feet
  11. Lower Manhattan Community Middle School
    1,150 feet
  12. Richard R. Green High School of Teaching School
    1,150 feet
  13. Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women, The School
    1,150 feet
  14. New York English Academy Trade or language school
    1,160 feet
  15. Quad Preparatory Upper School
    1,160 feet
  16. High School of Economics and Finance School
    1,180 feet
  17. New York City Charter School of the Arts School
    1,180 feet
  18. A School Without Walls School
    1,190 feet
  19. Leadership and Public Service High School
    1,190 feet
  20. Lang School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden
    1,100 feet
  2. Bowling Green Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Bank of New York Public space
    470 feet
  2. Public space at 40 Broad Street Public space
    590 feet
  3. Louise Nevelson Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,110 feet
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  1. Public space at 52 Broadway Public space
    660 feet
  2. Public space at 140 Broadway Public space
    710 feet
  3. Public space at J.P. Morgan Public space
    780 feet
  4. Public space at 55 Broad Street Public space
    820 feet
  5. Public space at 1 Exchange Plaza Public space
    940 feet
  6. Public space at Two Federal Reserve Plaza Public space
    980 feet
  7. Public space at Liberty Tower Public space
    1,040 feet
  8. Public space at 45 Broadway Atrium Public space
    1,060 feet
  9. Public space at Barclays Bank Public space
    1,100 feet
  10. Public space at 10 Hanover Square Public space
    1,190 feet
  11. Public space at 59 Maiden Lane Public space
    1,260 feet
  12. Public space at One Liberty Plaza Public space
    1,290 feet
  13. Public space at Goldman Sachs Public space
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Federal Hall National Memorial Historic site · landmark · listed historic place
    200 feet
  2. Wall Street Historic District Listed historic place
    220 feet
  3. Red Cube Public artwork
    770 feet
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  1. Manhattan Company Building Listed historic place
    360 feet
  2. Wall Street Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    440 feet
  3. Bank of New York Building Listed historic place
    530 feet
  4. Equitable Building Listed historic place
    540 feet
  5. Trinity Church and Graveyard Listed historic place
    540 feet
  6. Broad Exchange Building Listed historic place
    590 feet
  7. Lee, Higginson & Company Bank Building Listed historic place
    600 feet
  8. Empire Building Listed historic place
    660 feet
  9. First National City Bank (Merchants' Exchange) Listed historic place
    660 feet
  10. Liberty Tower Listed historic place
    780 feet
  11. Wall and Hanover Building Listed historic place
    840 feet
  12. Chamber of Commerce Building Listed historic place
    880 feet
  13. Trinity and United States Realty Company Buildings Listed historic place
    910 feet
  14. Wallace Building Listed historic place
    920 feet
  15. Citizens Housing and Planning Counci Research library
    920 feet
  16. Federal Reserve Bank of New York Listed historic place
    940 feet
  17. American Bank Note Company Office Building Listed historic place
    940 feet
  18. Beaver Building Listed historic place
    1,070 feet
  19. Building at 19 Rector Street Listed historic place
    1,130 feet
  20. 9/11 Memorial Museum
    1,150 feet
  21. New York Cotton Exchange (India House) Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  22. Charging Bull Statue Public artwork
    1,260 feet
  23. Stone Street Historic District Listed historic place
    1,260 feet
  24. American Stock Exchange Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Church House of worship
    550 feet
  2. Our Lady of Victory Church House of worship
    610 feet
  3. John St Methodist Church Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    280 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    640 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    640 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    530 feet
  2. 55 Fulton Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    880 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 175 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

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