Broadway & Murray Street

Broadway and Murray Street meet at a three-way junction in Tribeca-Civic Center, Manhattan. The corner is also named Steve Flaunders Square by local law. It lies inside the African Burial Ground & The Commons Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The fountain “City Hall Park Fountain” is 330 feet away. The nearest subway, City Hall, is about a minute on foot, for the R and W. Within a five-minute walk are 51 public places and 103 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
City Hall
60 feet · 1 min on foot · R, W
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Broadway/Murray St · X27, X28
Within a walk
51 places
16 listed historic places, 9 day care or pre-K sites and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & Murray Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is City Hall, 60 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. City Hall R, W
    60 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. Chambers St/WTC/Park Place/Cortlandt St 2, 3, A, C, E, R, W
    240 feet
    2 3 A C E R W
  2. Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St 4, 5, 6, J, Z
    850 feet
    4 5 6 J Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Murray St, 140 feet away, for the X27 and X28.

  • 30 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Murray St X27, X28
    140 feet
    X27 X28

Next buses at this stop

  1. X27 …
  2. X28 …

Live arrivals

Broadway carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, 7am to 6pm on weekdays.

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Murray Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Reade St & Broadway 62 docks in all
    780 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2 miles
  2. 10 Barclay Street Charging for electric cars, 17 Level 2 chargers
    810 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10007
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Tribeca-Civic Center
Elevation
38 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Steve Flaunders Square, a co-naming enacted on February 14, 1984 (Local Law 6 of 1984).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 113 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Steve Flaunders Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2015 and January 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Broadway

  • Farmers market 2 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY MARCH 1 - DEC 31 TUESDAY FRIDAY 6AM-6PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 2AM-6AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

North side of Murray Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY MAYOR'S COMMUNITYAFFAIRS UNIT
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of Murray Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY MAYOR'S COMMUNITYAFFAIRS UNIT
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO CHCC
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the African Burial Ground & The Commons Historic District.

Within 820 feet are 16 Individual Landmarks, and 59 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1854 and 1882.

  1. Postal Telegraph Building Designated landmark
    150 feet
  2. Home Life Insurance Company Building Designated landmark
    160 feet
  3. Rogers, Peet & Company Building Designated landmark
    210 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. City Hall Park Fountain Fountain, 1871
    330 feet
  2. Nathan Hale Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1893
    340 feet
  3. Horace Greeley Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1916
    640 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 51 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Hawthorne Country Day School
    300 feet
  2. International House New York Incorpo Trade or language school
    450 feet
  3. Barclay Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    570 feet
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  1. Cope Inst Trade or language school
    610 feet
  2. On the Record School of Reporting Trade or language school
    610 feet
  3. District 2 Pre-K Center at 52 Chambers Street Pre-K center
    710 feet
  4. Olivet Academy NYC School
    740 feet
  5. Dun & Bradstreet-Bus Educ Division Trade or language school
    750 feet
  6. Chabad of Tribeca Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    760 feet
  7. Ya Ya Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    760 feet
  8. Shirley Aninias School LLC (The) School
    770 feet
  9. Advanced Software Analysis Trade or language school
    810 feet
  10. Olivet Academy School
    830 feet
  11. Vivvi 2 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    870 feet
  12. School for Young Performers School
    900 feet
  13. New York Paralegal School Trade or language school
    950 feet
  14. Kiddie Academy of Tribeca Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet
  15. Reade Street Prep Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,050 feet
  16. Tribeca Preparatory School
    1,150 feet
  17. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,220 feet
  18. Imagine Early Learning Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. City Hall Park
    40 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 30 Park Place Public space
    750 feet
  2. Public space at 43 Park Place Public space
    900 feet
  3. Public space at Tribeca Tower Public space
    1,270 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at Millenium Hilton Hotel Public space
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. City Hall Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    240 feet
  2. New Amsterdam Library
    330 feet
  3. Archive of Contempory Music Research library
    1,020 feet
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  1. Woolworth Building Listed historic place
    490 feet
  2. Tweed Courthouse Listed historic place
    710 feet
  3. City Hall Listed historic place
    710 feet
  4. A. T. Stewart Company Store Listed historic place
    740 feet
  5. Building at 287 Broadway Listed historic place
    740 feet
  6. New York County Lawyers Association Building Listed historic place
    890 feet
  7. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Listed historic place
    910 feet
  8. Park Row Building Listed historic place
    980 feet
  9. African Burial Ground Listed historic place
    1,060 feet
  10. Old New York Evening Post Building Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
  11. Benjamin Franklin Statue Monument or memorial
    1,150 feet
  12. Building at 75 Murray Street Listed historic place
    1,160 feet
  13. Cary Building Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  14. NYC Municipal Archives Research library · listed historic place
    1,190 feet
  15. Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    1,200 feet
  16. Building at 8 Thomas Street Listed historic place
    1,260 feet
  17. Corbin Building Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Peters RC Church Listed historic place
    890 feet
  2. Saint Paul's Chapel Listed historic place
    950 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Church Street Post Office Listed historic place
    1,100 feet
  2. Surrogates Court Courthouse · listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Fire and police

  1. Manhattan Borough Command/Battalion 1/Engine 7/Ladder 1 Fire station
    1,080 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    90 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    120 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    700 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Gourmet Garage Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. 55 Fulton Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    180 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    720 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Westfield World Trade Center Shopping center
    1,280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 103 places to eat and 12 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Broadway or Murray 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, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.