Broadway & East 23rd Street

Broadway and East 23rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, Manhattan. The corner lies on the edge of the Ladies' Mile Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The statue “William Henry Seward” is 90 feet away, and Rebecca School is 890 feet away. The nearest subway, 23 St, is about a minute on foot, for the R and W. Within a five-minute walk are 37 public places, eight of them listed historic places, and 194 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
23 St
70 feet · 1 min on foot · R, W
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
E 23 St/Broadway · M23 SBS
Within a walk
37 places
8 listed historic places, 6 trade or language schools and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & East 23rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 23 St, 70 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 23 St R, W
    70 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. 23 St-Baruch College 6
    800 feet
    6
  2. 23 St F, M
    1,070 feet
    F M

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, 30 feet away, for the M23 SBS.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. M23 SBS …

Live arrivals

East 23rd Street carries a bus lane, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm, every day.

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Broadway.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & E 21 St 54 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & East 30th Street, 1.1 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
    990 feet
  3. West 24th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 9 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2012

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10010
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 5
City Council district
2 and 3 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
13
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square
Elevation
40 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 58 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 105 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2021 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Broadway

  • No stopping 5 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of East 23rd Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of East 23rd Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 3 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 9AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING 7AM-9AM 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 105130.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Ladies' Mile Historic District.

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 113 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance. They were mostly built between 1860 and 1907.

  1. Flatiron Building Designated landmark
    200 feet
  2. Western Union Building Designated landmark
    240 feet
  3. Mortimer Building Designated landmark
    360 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. William Henry Seward Statue by Randolph Rogers, 1876
    90 feet
  2. Roscoe Conkling Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1893
    250 feet
  3. General William Jenkins Worth Obelisk by James Goodwin Batterson, 1857
    510 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 public places.

  • 8 listed historic places
  • 6 trade or language schools
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 public spaces
  • 3 schools
  • 12 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Montessori at Flatiron Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    600 feet
  2. Pacific College of Health & Science College
    680 feet
  3. American Hi-Tech Business School Trade or language school
    680 feet
Show all 15
  1. Ecole International Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    650 feet
  2. The Ecole Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    650 feet
  3. Betty Owen Secretarial Systems Trade or language school
    680 feet
  4. General Assembly Trade or language school
    680 feet
  5. Peak Services for Children Preschool
    800 feet
  6. Rebecca School
    890 feet
  7. Institute of Culinary Education (The Trade or language school
    920 feet
  8. New York Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,030 feet
  9. Madison Business & Data Proc Inst Trade or language school
    1,070 feet
  10. Ballet Tech, NYC Public School for Dance School
    1,110 feet
  11. Manhattan Village Academy School
    1,210 feet
  12. Midtown School-Business Trade or language school
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Madison Square Park
    60 feet
  2. Worth Square
    400 feet
  3. Police Officer Moira Ann Smith Playground
    990 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Madison Green Public space
    260 feet
  2. Flatiron Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    420 feet
  3. Worth Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    470 feet
Show all 5
  1. Public space at New York Merchandise Mart Public space
    1,210 feet
  2. Public space at Stanford Public space
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sidewalk Clock at 200 5th Avenue, Manhattan Listed historic place
    310 feet
  2. National Museum of Mathematics Museum
    950 feet
  3. Van Alen Institute Research library
    1,010 feet
Show all 12
  1. Scribner Building Listed historic place
    550 feet
  2. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Listed historic place
    600 feet
  3. Building at 304 Park Avenue South Listed historic place
    830 feet
  4. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Complex Listed historic place
    890 feet
  5. Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State Listed historic place
    1,030 feet
  6. Museum of Sex Museum
    1,140 feet
  7. Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  8. Church Missions House Listed historic place
    1,200 feet
  9. United Charities Building Complex Listed historic place
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Sava Serbian Orthodox Church Listed historic place
    900 feet
  2. Calvary St George Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    250 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    520 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    960 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Morton Williams Supermarket
    1,140 feet
  2. Fairway Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    930 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    1,090 feet
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 194 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Broadway or East 23rd 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.