Broome Street & Essex Street

Broome Street and Essex Street meet at a four-way crossing in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, at the edge of NYCHA's Seward Park Extension development. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Essex Street Academy is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, Delancey St-Essex St, is about a minute on foot, and six subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 31 public places, six of them day care or pre-K sites, and 189 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Delancey St-Essex St
230 feet · 1 min on foot · F, J, M, Z
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Essex St/Delancey St · L92, M9, M14A SBS
Within a walk
31 places
6 day care or pre-K sites, 6 religious buildings and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broome Street & Essex Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Delancey St-Essex St, 230 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  • 6 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Delancey St-Essex St F, J, M, Z
    230 feet
    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 …

Also within a walk

  1. East Broadway F
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. Grand St B, D
    0.3 miles
    B D

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 Essex St/Delancey St, 250 feet away, for the L92, M9 and M14A SBS.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Essex St/Delancey St L92, M9, M14A SBS
    250 feet
    L92 M9 M14A SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. L92 …
  2. M9 …
  3. M14A SBS …

Live arrivals

Essex Street carries a bus lane, 6am to 3pm, every day.

Cycling

  • 58 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 9 of them on-street corrals
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Norfolk St & Broome St 59 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & Grand Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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
35 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 4,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Seward Park Extension development.

Since 2014 at least 553 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Broome Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM

South side of Broome Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

East side of Essex Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Essex Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 102518, 104263 and 107322.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Classical Revival. They were built between 1831 and 1927.

  1. Kehila Kadosha Janina Synagogue Designated landmark
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Grand St. Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    250 feet
  2. Essex Street Academy School
    260 feet
  3. High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies School
    260 feet
Show all 12
  1. Lower Manhattan Arts Academy School
    260 feet
  2. New Design High School
    260 feet
  3. Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law, The School
    260 feet
  4. Victoria Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    800 feet
  5. Bright Horizons at Essex Crossings Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    920 feet
  6. Elements Nursery Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,100 feet
  7. Elements Preschool Pre-K
    1,150 feet
  8. P.S. 042 Benjamin Altman School
    1,260 feet
  9. Chinese - American Planning Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Seward Park
    870 feet
  2. Seward Park Playground
    950 feet
  3. Sara D. Roosevelt Park
    1,240 feet
Show all 4
  1. Straus Square
    1,310 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Delancey Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    800 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lower East Side Historic District Listed historic place
    220 feet
  2. International Center of Photography Museum
    260 feet
  3. Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue Listed historic place
    380 feet
Show all 6
  1. Tenement Building at 97 Orchard Street Listed historic place
    620 feet
  2. Lower East Side Tenement Museum
    710 feet
  3. First Roumanian-American Congregation Synagogue Listed historic place
    1,140 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Seward Park Community Center
    350 feet
  2. Older adult center at 175 Delancey Street Older adult center
    880 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    330 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    580 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    710 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lidl Supermarket
    990 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    1,070 feet
  3. Metro Acres Market Supermarket
    1,130 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    660 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    1,080 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 189 places to eat and 32 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Broome Street or Essex 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.