Canal Street & Essex Street

Canal Street and Essex Street meet at a four-way crossing in Chinatown-Two Bridges, Manhattan. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. The stele “Lower East Side War Memorial” is 90 feet away, and Museum at Eldridge Street is 1,050 feet away. The nearest subway, East Broadway, is about a minute on foot, and six subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 51 public places, 21 of them religious buildings, and 119 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
East Broadway
70 feet · 1 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Essex St/East Broadway · M9
Within a walk
51 places
21 religious buildings, 8 schools and 14 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Canal Street & Essex Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is East Broadway, 70 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 6 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. East Broadway F
    70 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Uptown
1 line
  1. F …
Brooklyn
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Delancey St-Essex St F, J, M, Z
    0.3 miles
    F J M Z
  2. Grand St B, D
    0.4 miles
    B D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Essex St/East Broadway, 140 feet away, for the M9.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Essex St/East Broadway M9 · Countdown sign
    140 feet
    M9
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. M9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Canal Street and Rutgers Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Canal St & Rutgers St 45 docks in all
    110 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    2.4 miles
  2. 59 Allen Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2015
  • Turn calming, December 2019
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2022

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)
Chinatown-Two Bridges
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 136 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and June 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Canal Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MAY-OCTOBER WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY 3PM-10:30PM
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Canal Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MAY-OCTOBER WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY 3PM-10:30PM

East side of Essex Street

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of Essex Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 102424, 116183 and 116292.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Five buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and mostly built between 1908 and 1912.

  1. Loew's Canal Street Theatre Designated landmark
    180 feet
  2. Forward Building Designated landmark
    290 feet
  3. S. Jarmulowsky Bank Building Designated landmark
    570 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Lower East Side War Memorial Stele by Joseph Kiselewski, 1953
    90 feet
  2. Jacob H. Schiff Fountain Fountain by Arnold W. Brunner, 1895
    230 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 51 public places.

  • 21 religious buildings
  • 8 schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 12 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Victoria Children's Center & Nursery Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    230 feet
  2. Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem Pre-School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    410 feet
  3. Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem School
    450 feet
Show all 12
  1. The Educational Alliance Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
  2. P.S. 042 Benjamin Altman School
    880 feet
  3. P.S. 002 Meyer London School
    910 feet
  4. Grand St. Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet
  5. Essex Street Academy School
    1,190 feet
  6. High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies School
    1,190 feet
  7. Lower Manhattan Arts Academy School
    1,190 feet
  8. New Design High School
    1,190 feet
  9. Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law, The School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Straus Square
    40 feet
  2. Seward Park
    50 feet
  3. Seward Park Playground
    70 feet
Show all 7
  1. Captain Jacob Joseph Playground
    320 feet
  2. Lower East Side People Care Garden
    510 feet
  3. Little Flower Playground
    960 feet
  4. Sara D. Roosevelt Park
    1,260 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Division Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    240 feet

Health care

  1. New Gouverneur Hospital SNF Nursing home or hospice
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Seward Park Library Landmark
    550 feet
  2. Museum at Eldridge Street Museum · listed historic place
    1,050 feet
  3. Lower East Side Historic District Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Teresa Church House of worship
    310 feet
  2. Trinity Assembly of God Church House of worship
    460 feet
  3. Chinese Missionary Baptist Church House of worship
    470 feet
Show all 5
  1. Primitive Christian Church House of worship
    690 feet
  2. St Barbara Greek Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Knickerbocker Post Office Listed historic place
    520 feet
  2. Older adult center at 197 East Broadway Older adult center
    560 feet
  3. Rutgers Community Center
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. Seward Park Community Center
    1,110 feet
  2. YMCA Chinatown Hester Street Center Recreation center
    1,260 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 9/Ladder 6 Fire station
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Chinatown Supermarket Supermarket
    910 feet
  2. Metro Acres Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 119 places to eat and 39 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Canal Street, Essex Street or Rutgers Street.

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, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.