Broadway & 5th Avenue

Broadway and 5th Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Worth Square is 30 feet away, and St Sava Serbian Orthodox Church is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, 23 St, is about a minute on foot, and 13 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 34 public places, nine of them listed historic places, and 193 places to eat. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
23 St
230 feet · 1 min on foot · R, W
Nearest bus stop
400 feet
E 23 St/Broadway · M23 SBS
Within a walk
34 places
9 listed historic places, 6 trade or language schools and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & 5th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 23 St, 230 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 23 St R, W
    230 feet
    R W

Next trains at this station

Uptown
2 lines
  1. R …
  2. W …
Downtown
2 lines
  1. R …
  2. W …

Also within a walk

  1. 28 St R, W
    1,120 feet
    R W
  2. 23 St-Baruch College 6
    1,170 feet
    6

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Memories of Twenty-Third Street” (2002) by Keith Godard at the 23 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 23 St/Broadway, 400 feet away, for the M23 SBS.

  • 48 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 23 St/Broadway M23 SBS
    400 feet
    M23 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. M23 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 5th Avenue and Broadway.

  • 134 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. Broadway & W 25 St 109 docks in all
    220 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 30th Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 4 West 21st Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,200 feet
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 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 November 2018.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2017
  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10010
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 5
City Council district
3
Police precinct
13
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 117 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 5th Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Broadway

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and 102 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Beaux-Arts. They were built between 1846 and 1991.

  1. Fifth Avenue Building Designated landmark
    260 feet
  2. Townsend Building Designated landmark
    410 feet
  3. Western Union Building Designated landmark
    430 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works near this corner, the nearest in Worth Square.

  1. General William Jenkins Worth Obelisk by James Goodwin Batterson, 1857
    130 feet
  2. William Henry Seward Statue by Randolph Rogers, 1876
    320 feet
  3. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1881
    380 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 public places.

  • 9 listed historic places
  • 6 trade or language schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 public spaces
  • 2 museums
  • 10 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ecole International Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    270 feet
  2. The Ecole Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    270 feet
  3. Pacific College of Health & Science College
    1,050 feet
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  1. Peak Services for Children Preschool
    420 feet
  2. The Montessori at Flatiron Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  3. American Hi-Tech Business School Trade or language school
    1,050 feet
  4. Betty Owen Secretarial Systems Trade or language school
    1,050 feet
  5. General Assembly Trade or language school
    1,050 feet
  6. The Big Deal Casino Academy Trade or language school
    1,080 feet
  7. Institute of Culinary Education (The Trade or language school
    1,130 feet
  8. Rebecca School
    1,260 feet
  9. Madison Business & Data Proc Inst Trade or language school
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Worth Square
    30 feet
  2. Madison Square Park
    80 feet
  3. Police Officer Moira Ann Smith Playground
    960 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Flatiron Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    40 feet
  2. Worth Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    100 feet
  3. Public space at Madison Green Public space
    640 feet
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  1. Public space at New York Merchandise Mart Public space
    1,130 feet
  2. Public space at 1185 Broadway Public space
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sidewalk Clock at 200 5th Avenue, Manhattan Listed historic place
    210 feet
  2. National Museum of Mathematics Museum
    570 feet
  3. Flatiron Building Listed historic place
    610 feet
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  1. Museum of Sex Museum
    760 feet
  2. Scribner Building Listed historic place
    850 feet
  3. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Listed historic place
    980 feet
  4. Prince George Hotel Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
  5. Building at 304 Park Avenue South Listed historic place
    1,200 feet
  6. Van Alen Institute Research library
    1,210 feet
  7. Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State Listed historic place
    1,240 feet
  8. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Complex Listed historic place
    1,270 feet
  9. Racquet Court Club Building Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Center for Book Arts Arts or cultural center
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Sava Serbian Orthodox Church Listed historic place
    520 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    150 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    460 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    580 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fairway Market Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,120 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,310 feet
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or Broadway.

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