Brooklyn Bridge & Park Row at Spruce Street

Brooklyn Bridge, Park Row and Spruce Street meet at a four-way crossing in Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan. The corner 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. Benjamin Franklin Statue is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, is about a minute on foot, for the 4, 5, 6 and two more. Within a five-minute walk are 51 public places and 89 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St
260 feet · 1 min on foot · 4, 5, 6, J, Z
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Park Row/Spruce St · M22, BM1, BM2, BM3 +1
Within a walk
51 places
12 listed historic places, 6 schools and 13 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Bridge & Park Row at Spruce Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St, 260 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 5 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall/Chambers St 4, 5, 6, J, Z
    260 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. Fulton St 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, Z
    850 feet
    2 3 4 5 A C J Z
  2. Chambers St/WTC/Park Place/Cortlandt St 2, 3, A, C, E, R, W
    940 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 Park Row/Spruce St, 30 feet away, for the M22, BM1, BM2, BM3 and BM4.

  • 31 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Row/Spruce St M22, BM1, BM2, BM3 +1
    30 feet
    M22 BM1 BM2 BM3 BM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. M22 …
  2. BM1 …
  3. BM2 …
  4. BM3 …
  5. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Park Row and Spruce Street.

  • 66 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Spruce St & Nassau St 34 docks in all
    220 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge at Rose Street, 920 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.2 miles
  2. 10 Reade Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 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.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • 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)
Financial District-Battery Park City

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 97 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 88 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Park Row

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY MAYOR'S OFFICE CITY HALL
  • Authorized vehicles only 4 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • NYP plates only 2 signs NYP LICENSE PLATES ONLY

North side of Spruce Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 6:30AM-7:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Spruce Street

  • 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 12 Individual Landmarks, and 18 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance. They were built between 1802 and 1914.

  1. New York Times Building Designated landmark
    100 feet
  2. Potter Building Designated landmark
    180 feet
  3. American Tract Society 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. Nathan Hale Statue by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1893
    200 feet
  2. City Hall Park Fountain Fountain, 1871
    320 feet
  3. Horace Greeley Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1916
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 12 listed historic places
  • 6 schools
  • 6 trade or language schools
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 parks
  • 18 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Pace University - NYC Campus College
    480 feet
  2. Spruce Street School
    480 feet
  3. Advanced Software Analysis Trade or language school
    500 feet
Show all 18
  1. Tribeca Preparatory School
    680 feet
  2. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    710 feet
  3. Barclay Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    760 feet
  4. Cope Inst Trade or language school
    800 feet
  5. On the Record School of Reporting Trade or language school
    800 feet
  6. Hawthorne Country Day School
    870 feet
  7. International Development Institute, Trade or language school
    880 feet
  8. District 2 Pre-K Center at 52 Chambers Street Pre-K center
    930 feet
  9. Olivet Academy NYC School
    930 feet
  10. School for Young Performers School
    940 feet
  11. Olivet Academy School
    1,020 feet
  12. Dun & Bradstreet-Bus Educ Division Trade or language school
    1,170 feet
  13. District 2 Pre-K Center at 10 Reade Street Pre-K center
    1,210 feet
  14. Excel Career Training School Trade or language school
    1,250 feet
  15. Vivvi 2 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. City Hall Park
    90 feet
  2. Drumgoole Plaza Park
    660 feet
  3. DeLury Square
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. Thomas Paine Park
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at New York by Gehry Public space
    480 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Arches Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,170 feet
  3. Municipal Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,270 feet
Show all 6
  1. Public space at 33 Beekman Street Public space
    680 feet
  2. Public space at 30 Park Place Public space
    1,170 feet
  3. Public space at 130 William Street Public space
    1,240 feet

Health care

  1. New York-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital
    770 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Benjamin Franklin Statue Monument or memorial
    50 feet
  2. City Hall Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    320 feet
  3. City Hall Listed historic place
    410 feet
Show all 14
  1. Park Row Building Listed historic place
    670 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall Subway Station (IRT) Listed historic place
    690 feet
  3. Woolworth Building Listed historic place
    830 feet
  4. Municipal Building Listed historic place
    850 feet
  5. Fulton-Nassau Historic District Listed historic place
    880 feet
  6. Chambers Street Subway Station (BMT) Listed historic place
    890 feet
  7. Tweed Courthouse Listed historic place
    930 feet
  8. NYC Municipal Archives Research library · listed historic place
    1,010 feet
  9. New York County Lawyers Association Building Listed historic place
    1,020 feet
  10. Old New York Evening Post Building Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  11. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Wall St Synagogue House of worship
    740 feet
  2. Saint Paul's Chapel Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  3. St Peters RC Church Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Surrogates Court Courthouse · listed historic place
    900 feet
  2. Older adult center at 100 Gold Street Older adult center
    1,170 feet
  3. Thurgood Marshall US Courthouse Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 6 Fire station
    900 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    940 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    980 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 55 Fulton Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    830 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    970 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 89 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 20 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Bridge, Park Row or Spruce Street.

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, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.