Broome Street & Columbia Street

Broome Street and Columbia Street meet at a five-way junction in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Luther Gulick Park is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Delancey St-Essex St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the F, J, M and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, six of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat. About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1929 and 1949, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Delancey St-Essex St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · F, J, M, Z
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Grand St/Columbia St · L92, M14A SBS
Within a walk
26 places
6 religious buildings, 5 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broome Street & Columbia Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Delancey St-Essex St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. Delancey St-Essex St F, J, M, Z
    0.4 miles
    F J M Z

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. F …
Brooklyn
4 lines
  1. F …
  2. J …
  3. M …
  4. Z …
Inbound
3 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …
  3. Z …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Shad Crossing, Delancey Orchard” (2004) by Ming Fay at the Delancey St-Essex St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand St/Columbia St, 380 feet away, for the L92 and M14A SBS.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand St/Columbia St L92, M14A SBS
    380 feet
    L92 M14A SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. L92 …
  2. M14A SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Henry St & Grand St 36 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & Grand Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.5 miles
  2. 107 Essex Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    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 May 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10002
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
1
Police precinct
7
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Lower East Side
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1929 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

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

East side of Columbia Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Columbia Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Five buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Federal, and built between 1826 and 1915.

  1. Neighborhood Playhouse Designated landmark
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 parks
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 110 Florence Nightingale School
    360 feet
  2. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet
  3. East River Child Devlp Cntr - 570 School
    840 feet
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  1. P.S. 134 Henrietta Szold School
    880 feet
  2. Henry Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  3. NY Center for Child Dev Grand St Set School
    900 feet
  4. Dewitt Reformed Church Preschool · Pre-K
    930 feet
  5. Kids-Centric, Inc Dewitt Headstart School
    1,050 feet
  6. East River Child Development Center Preschool
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Luther Gulick Park
    40 feet
  2. Luther Gulick Park Playground
    40 feet
  3. Sidney Hillman Playground
    470 feet
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  1. Henry M. Jackson Playground
    560 feet
  2. Ahearn Park
    840 feet
  3. Sol Lain Plgd Playground
    910 feet
  4. Vladeck Park
    1,180 feet

Health care

  1. New East Side Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    600 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Henry Street Settlement and Neighborhood Playhouse Listed historic place
    1,010 feet
  2. St. Augustine's Chapel Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Lutowisker Chevra Synagogues House of worship
    510 feet
  2. Bialystoker Synagogue Landmark · listed historic place
    680 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 15 Willett Street Older adult center
    630 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    690 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    740 feet
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    800 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Abraham Kazan Street, Broome Street or Columbia Street.

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