Brooklyn Bridge & Centre Street

Brooklyn Bridge and Centre Street meet at a five-way junction in Tribeca-Civic Center, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the African Burial Ground & The Commons Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. City Hall Park is 30 feet away, and New Amsterdam Library is 1,130 feet away. The nearest subway, Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, is about a minute on foot, and 15 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 51 public places, 11 of them listed historic places, and 37 places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St
100 feet · 1 min on foot · 4, 5, 6, J, Z
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Centre St/Chambers St · M22
Within a walk
51 places
11 listed historic places, 10 schools and 14 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Bridge & Centre Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, 100 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  • 15 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St 4, 5, 6, J, Z
    100 feet
    4 5 6 J Z

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
Downtown
5 lines
  1. 4 …
  2. 5 …
  3. 6 …
  4. J …
  5. Z …
Brooklyn
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. City Hall R, W
    700 feet
    R W
  2. Chambers St/WTC/Park Place/Cortlandt St 2, 3, A, C, E, R, W
    1,190 feet
    2 3 A C E R W

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Cable Crossing” (1996) by Mark Gibian at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Centre St/Chambers St, 380 feet away, for the M22.

  • 31 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Centre St/Chambers St M22
    380 feet
    M22

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Centre Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Centre St & Chambers St 57 docks in all
    120 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.2 miles
  2. 25 Park Row Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1,310 feet
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2018
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10038
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 1
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1 and 5 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Tribeca-Civic Center

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 86 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 9 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in December 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Centre Street

  • No stopping 9 signs NO STOPPING 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 eight Individual Landmarks, and 20 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance. They were built between 1802 and 1925.

  1. New York City Hall Designated landmark
    340 feet
  2. New York County Courthouse, Tweed Courthouse Designated landmark
    400 feet
  3. Municipal Building Designated landmark
    410 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Horace Greeley Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1916
    160 feet
  2. Nathan Hale Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1893
    420 feet
  3. 5 in 1 Sculpture by Tony Rosenthal, 1974
    540 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 11 listed historic places
  • 10 schools
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 courthouses
  • 3 parks
  • 18 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    270 feet
  2. Advanced Software Analysis Trade or language school
    880 feet
  3. Pace University - NYC Campus College
    910 feet
Show all 20
  1. District 2 Pre-K Center at 52 Chambers Street Pre-K center
    490 feet
  2. District 2 Pre-K Center at 10 Reade Street Pre-K center
    780 feet
  3. Spruce Street School
    920 feet
  4. Tribeca Preparatory School
    1,080 feet
  5. Barclay Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,130 feet
  6. Cope Inst Trade or language school
    1,170 feet
  7. On the Record School of Reporting Trade or language school
    1,170 feet
  8. Chabad of Tribeca Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet
  9. Ya Ya Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet
  10. Manhattan Early College School for Marketing and Media Arts School
    1,240 feet
  11. Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers School
    1,240 feet
  12. The Urban Assembly Early College High School of Emergency Medicine School
    1,240 feet
  13. Urban Assembly Maker Academy School
    1,240 feet
  14. Hawthorne Country Day School
    1,240 feet
  15. Shirley Aninias School LLC (The) School
    1,250 feet
  16. Olivet Academy NYC School
    1,300 feet
  17. School for Young Performers School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. City Hall Park
    30 feet
  2. Drumgoole Plaza Park
    560 feet
  3. Thomas Paine Park
    790 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Arches Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    880 feet
  2. Public space at New York by Gehry Public space
    920 feet
  3. Municipal Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public space at 33 Beekman Street Public space
    1,120 feet

Health care

  1. New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    260 feet
  2. Benjamin Franklin Statue Monument or memorial
    380 feet
  3. NYC Municipal Archives Research library · landmark · listed historic place
    580 feet
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  1. Chambers Street Subway Station (BMT) Listed historic place
    450 feet
  2. City Hall Listed historic place
    470 feet
  3. City Hall Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    640 feet
  4. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Listed historic place
    880 feet
  5. Triumph of the Human Spirit Statue Monument or memorial
    910 feet
  6. African Burial Ground Listed historic place
    930 feet
  7. A. T. Stewart Company Store Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  8. Park Row Building Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  9. African Burial Ground National Monument Historic site
    1,060 feet
  10. New Amsterdam Library
    1,130 feet
  11. Woolworth Building Listed historic place
    1,200 feet
  12. Building at 287 Broadway Listed historic place
    1,220 feet
  13. Historical Records NY CNTY Clerk Research library
    1,300 feet
  14. Fulton-Nassau Historic District Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Andrews RC Church House of worship
    910 feet
  2. Wall St Synagogue House of worship
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Surrogates Court Courthouse · landmark · listed historic place
    470 feet
  2. Thurgood Marshall US Courthouse Listed historic place
    860 feet
  3. Older adult center at 100 Gold Street Older adult center
    1,090 feet
Show all 4
  1. Supreme Court Civil Term Courthouse
    1,130 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    910 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,060 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,130 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    1,220 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 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 37 places to eat and seven food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 22 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Path or Centre Street.

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