Broome Street & Wooster Street

Broome Street and Wooster Street meet at a four-way crossing in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan. The corner lies inside the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. Ie New York College is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, Canal St, is about four minutes on foot, and 15 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, four of them listed historic places, and 74 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Canal St
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · A, C, E
Nearest bus stop
790 feet
Broadway/Broome St · SIM1, SIM1C, SIM3C, SIM4C +4
Within a walk
21 places
4 listed historic places, 3 museums and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broome Street & Wooster Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Canal St, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 15 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Canal St A, C, E
    1,160 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
    0.3 miles
    C E
  2. Canal St 1
    0.3 miles
    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 Broadway/Broome St, 790 feet away, for the SIM1, SIM1C, SIM3C, SIM4C and four more.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Broome St SIM1, SIM1C, SIM3C, SIM4C +4
    790 feet
    SIM1 SIM1C SIM3C SIM4C SIM33C SIM34 X27 X28

Next buses at this stop

  1. SIM1 …
  2. SIM1C …
  3. SIM3C …
  4. SIM4C …
  5. SIM33C …
  6. SIM34 …
  7. X27 …
  8. X28 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge northbound at Pearl Street & R F Wagner Sr Place, 1.1 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
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2025.

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
10 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 1880 and 1907.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Broome Street

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

South side of Broome Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

East side of Wooster Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

West side of Wooster Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 336 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1868 and 1894.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 4 listed historic places
  • 3 museums
  • 3 parks
  • 3 schools
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ie New York College
    260 feet
  2. Broome Street Academy Charter High School
    990 feet
  3. The Montessori in Soho Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,010 feet
Show all 7
  1. Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School
    1,100 feet
  2. NYC Ischool School
    1,100 feet
  3. International Culinary Center (The) Trade or language school
    1,240 feet
  4. Italian Culinary Academy (The) Trade or language school
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Vesuvio Playground
    1,050 feet
  2. Duarte Square
    1,050 feet
  3. Grand Canal Court Park
    1,110 feet
Show all 4
  1. Spring Street Park
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Drawing Center Museum
    270 feet
  2. E. V. Haughwout Building Listed historic place
    300 feet
  3. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Museum
    530 feet
Show all 7
  1. Soho Historic District Listed historic place
    560 feet
  2. Soho Cast-Iron Historic District (NHL) Listed historic place
    710 feet
  3. Center for Italian Modern Art Museum
    1,150 feet
  4. Houses at 83 and 85 Sullivan Street Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Performing Garage Theater or concert hall
    300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Canal Street Post Office Listed historic place
    990 feet
  2. Vesuvio Playground Mini Pool Swimming pool
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    980 feet
  2. Wells Fargo Bank branch
    1,200 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Morton Williams Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Gourmet Garage Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 74 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 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

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