Broome Street & Pitt Street

Broome Street and Pitt Street meet at a four-way crossing in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. The corner is also named Harry Blumenstein Plaza by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The Battalion 4/Engine 15/Ladder 18 firehouse is 170 feet away. The nearest subway, Delancey St-Essex St, is about six minutes on foot, for the F, J, M and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 32 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Delancey St-Essex St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · F, J, M, Z
Nearest bus stop
430 feet
Grand St/Pitt St · L92, M14A SBS
Within a walk
32 places
11 religious buildings, 5 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broome Street & Pitt Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Delancey St-Essex St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. Delancey St-Essex St F, J, M, Z
    0.3 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 …

Also within a walk

  1. East Broadway F
    0.4 miles
    F

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/Pitt St, 430 feet away, for the L92 and M14A SBS.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand St/Pitt St L92, M14A SBS · Shelter
    430 feet
    L92 M14A SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. L92 …
  2. M14A SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Grand St & Samuel Dickstein Plaza 81 docks in all
    410 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive southbound at FDR Drive & Grand Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 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
23 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Harry Blumenstein Plaza, a co-naming enacted on January 3, 1977 (Local Law 1 of 1977).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,300 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 1960 and 1972.

Since 2014 at least 454 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Harry Blumenstein Plaza.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Broome Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Broome Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Pitt Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are eight Individual Landmarks, and nine buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Federal. They were mostly built between 1827 and 1834.

  1. Neighborhood Playhouse Designated landmark
    260 feet
  2. Henry Street Settlement Designated landmark
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Beth Jacob Elementary School
    290 feet
  2. Chinese - American Planning Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
  3. Grand Street Settlement Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    870 feet
Show all 9
  1. P.S. 134 Henrietta Szold School
    930 feet
  2. Bright Horizons at Essex Crossings Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
  3. Manhattan Charter School
    1,080 feet
  4. P.S. 142 Amalia Castro School
    1,080 feet
  5. All My Children Day Care and Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet
  6. Keswell School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ahearn Park
    620 feet
  2. Luther Gulick Park
    690 feet
  3. Sol Lain Plgd Playground
    730 feet
Show all 4
  1. Luther Gulick Park Playground
    1,000 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Henry Street Settlement and Neighborhood Playhouse Listed historic place
    520 feet
  2. Lillian Wald Residence Listed historic place
    900 feet
  3. Lower East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,200 feet
Show all 4
  1. Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bialystoker Synagogue Landmark · listed historic place
    250 feet
  2. St Marys RC Church House of worship
    440 feet
  3. Lutowisker Chevra Synagogues House of worship
    1,090 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 15 Willett Street Older adult center
    180 feet
  2. Older adult center at 175 Delancey Street Older adult center
    770 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 4/Engine 15/Ladder 18 Fire station
    170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    640 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    760 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lidl Supermarket
    1,020 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  3. Metro Acres Market Supermarket
    1,240 feet

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    1,120 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Broome Street or Pitt 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, NYC Records, 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.