Broome Street & West Broadway

Broome Street and West Broadway meet at a six-way junction in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Drawing Center is 340 feet away, and Tribeca Park is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, Canal St, is about three minutes on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, five of them parks, and 98 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Canal St
900 feet · 3 min on foot · A, C, E
Nearest bus stop
570 feet
6 Av/Broome St · M55
Within a walk
25 places
5 parks, 4 listed historic places and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broome Street & West Broadway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Canal St, 900 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Canal St A, C, E
    900 feet
    A C E

Next trains at this station

Uptown
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. E …
Downtown
3 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
  3. E …

Also within a walk

  1. Spring St C, E
    1,120 feet
    C E
  2. Canal St 1
    1,200 feet
    1

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “A Gathering” (2001) by Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz at the Canal St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 6 Av/Broome St, 570 feet away, for the M55.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 6 Av/Broome St M55
    570 feet
    M55

Next buses at this stop

  1. M55 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Broome Street and West Broadway.

  • 34 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. W Broadway & Watts St 51 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge northbound at Pearl Street & R F Wagner Sr Place, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 284 Mott Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, December 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10013
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 2
City Council district
1
Police precinct
1
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1882 and 1910.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and August 2023; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Broome Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

South side of Broome Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Watts Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Watts Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

East side of West Broadway

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING 11PM-7AM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

West side of West Broadway

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 288 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1868 and 1896.

  1. (former) Substation No. 2 Designated landmark
    660 feet
  2. Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse (former Engine Company No. 13) Designated landmark
    700 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Duarte Square.

  1. Juan Pablo Duarte Statue by Nicola Arrighini, 1978
    730 feet
  2. General José Artigas Statue by José Luis Zorilla de San Martin, 1987
    730 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 5 parks
  • 4 listed historic places
  • 3 museums
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 8 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ie New York College
    520 feet
  2. Broome Street Academy Charter High School
    720 feet
  3. The Montessori in Soho Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    740 feet
Show all 7
  1. Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School
    830 feet
  2. NYC Ischool School
    830 feet
  3. Vivvi 1 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,090 feet
  4. Language Institute for English Trade or language school
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Vesuvio Playground
    780 feet
  2. Duarte Square
    790 feet
  3. Grand Canal Court Park
    850 feet
Show all 6
  1. Spring Street Park
    960 feet
  2. Albert Capsouto Park
    1,130 feet
  3. Tribeca Park
    1,240 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at The Dominick Public space
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. E. V. Haughwout Building Listed historic place
    90 feet
  2. Drawing Center Museum
    340 feet
  3. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Museum
    790 feet
Show all 7
  1. Soho Historic District Listed historic place
    820 feet
  2. Houses at 83 and 85 Sullivan Street Listed historic place
    910 feet
  3. Soho Cast-Iron Historic District (NHL) Listed historic place
    970 feet
  4. Jackie Robinson Museum
    1,080 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Performing Garage Theater or concert hall
    350 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Vesuvio Playground Mini Pool Swimming pool
    930 feet
  2. Canal Street Post Office Listed historic place
    1,160 feet
  3. NYS Department of Labor Lower Manhattan Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,150 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 98 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Broome Street, Watts Street or West Broadway.

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